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**SCOPE**
Before the development of modern science, and for most of human existence, time was perceived as a circle or spiral; a cyclical pattern of renewal and rebirth.  More familiar to us now is the Western tradition of linear time, a forward-moving direction, a flow that represents a line between the past and the future implicit with the idea of progress.  As the discoveries of evolution have come to underpin most of modern science so the “arrow of time” has become a given in our collective consciousness.

 You can’t see it or smell or taste it or hear it, yet it is of the physical world.  We witness evidence of time all around in death and decay.  Yet perception of time is largely a human phenomenon and certainly we are the only creatures who measure it, apply tools to it, and create tools to use it.  Time is an aspect of the natural world and the characteristics of physical time are determined by the processes of the physical world.  It is the essence of cosmology, astronomy, and physics but is equally important in the disciplines of biology and geology.  Certainly it is critical to modern technology.  The precision of its measurement drives our daily lives.

 As Tolkien wrote in *The Hobbit*, it is “This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town And beats high mountain down.”  From Newtonian to Einsteinian physics and quantum mechanics to thermodynamics and satellite communications, time is of the essence to virtually all scientific disciplines.  This bibliographic guide attempts to present a selection of works across the sciences, and is not intended as a comprehensive bibliography, but is designed -- as the name *Tracer Bullet* implies -- to put the reader “on target.”

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**INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TOPIC**
 Langone, John.  *The mystery of time: humanity’s quest for order and measure.*  Washington, National Geographic Society, c2000.  256 p.			   Includes bibliographical references.			   BD638.L26 2000

Time.  In *McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology.*  10th ed.  v. 18.  New York,  McGraw-Hill, c2007.  p. 443-445.    Q121.M3 1997 <SciRR>

 Time.  In Ridley, B. K.  *Time, space and things*.  3rd ed.  Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995.p. 57-68.			   QC24.5.R5 1995 <SciRR>

 Time and frequency.  In *Encyclopedia of physical science and technology.*  3rd ed.  Editor-in-chief, Robert A. Meyers.  San Diego, Academic Press, c2002.  v. 16. p. 783-801.               Q123.E497 2002 <SciRR>

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**SUBJECT HEADINGS**
SUBJECT HEADINGS used by the Library of Congress, under which books on time can be located in most card, book and online catalogs, include the following:

**Highly Relevant**
TIME   May also be subdivided topically, e.g., TIME--HISTORY, TIME--SYSTEMS AND STANDARDS, etc.

**Relevant**

ASTRONOMICAL CLOCKSASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTSCHRONOGRAPHCHRONOMETERSCLOCKS AND WATCHESHOROLOGYTIME MEASUREMENTS

**Related**

 BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMSCALENDARCHRONOBIOLOGYCHRONOLOGYCIRCADIAN RHYTHMSCOSMOCHRONOLOGYCOSMOLOGYDAYLIGHT SAVINGFREQUENCY STANDARDSGEOCHRONOMETRYGEODETIC ASTRONOMYGEOLOGICAL TIMELONGITUDEMERIDIANS (GEODESY)NAUTICAL ASTRONOMYPENDULUMSPACE AND TIMETIME PERCEPTIONTIME TRAVEL
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**BASIC TEXTS**
*The Discovery of time.*  Edited by Stuart McCready.  Naperville, IL, Sourcebooks, c2001.  256 p.    QB209.D57 2001 <SciRR>

*Encyclopedia of time.*  Edited by Samuel L. Macey.  New York, Garland Pub., 1994.  699 p.  (Garland reference library of social science, v. 810)  			   Includes bibliographical references.			   Based on: *Time: a bibliographic guide.* Samuel L. Macey. 1991.			   QB209.E52 1994 <SciRR>

 Holland, C. H.  *The idea of time.*  Chichester, New York, Wiley, c1999.  150 p. 			   Bibliography: p. 139-145.			   QB209.H57 1999 <SciRR>

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**ADDITIONAL TITLES**
 Aveni, Anthony F.  *Empires of time: calendars, clocks, and cultures*.  Rev. ed.  Boulder, CO, University Press of Colorado, c2002.  332 p.   Bibliography: p. 305-320.   QB209.A94 2002 <SciRR>

 Coveney, Peter V., and Roger Highfield.  *The arrow of time: a voyage through science to solve time’s greatest mystery.*  New York, Fawcett Columbine, 1991.  378 p.			   Bibliography: p. 350-359.			   QB209.C64 1991

 Fraser,  J. T.  *The genesis and evolution of time: a critique of interpretation in physics.*  Amherst,  University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.  205 p.			   QB209.F7 1982

 Fraser, J. T.  *Time and time again: reports from a boundary of the universe.*  Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2007.  433 p.  (Supplements to The study of time, v. 1)               Bibliography: p. 403-428.			   BD638.F675 2007

 Galison, Peter.  *Einstein’s clocks and Poincaré’s maps: empires of time.*  New York, W.W. Norton, c2003.  389 p.			   Bibliography: p. 355-370.			   QB209.G35 2003

 Klein, Stefan.  *The secret pulse of time: making sense of life's scarcest commodity.*Cambridge, MA, Marlowe & Co., c2007.  343 p.			    Bibliography: p. 301-316.		       Translation of *Zeit: der stoff aus dem das leben ist*, published: Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer, 2006.			   BF468.K5413 2007

 Schlegel, Richard.  *Time and the physical world.*  New York, Dover Publications, 1968.  211 p.			     Includes bibliographical references.     "An unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published in 1961 ... This reprint contains a new preface by the author."      QC6.S28 1968 <SciRR>

*Time.*Edited by Katinka Ridderbos.  Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002.  174 p. 		       Includes bibliographical references.			    QB209.T48 2002

 Zeh, H. D.  *The physical basis of the direction of time.*  5th ed.  Berlin, New York, Springer, c2007.  231 p.		       Bibliography: p. 209-226.			   QC173.59.S65 Z38 2007 <SciRR>

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**SPECIALIZED TITLES**
**Biological Time**

 Binkley, Sue Ann.*The clockwork sparrow: time, clocks, and calendars in biological organisms.*  Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, c1990.  262 p.   Bibliography: p. 254-258.   QP84.6.B55 1990 <SciRR>

*Chronobiology: biological timekeeping.*  Edited by Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros, and Patricia J. DeCoursey.  Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates, c2004.  406 p.                Includes bibliographical references.			   QP84.6.C453 2004 <SciRR>

 Foster, Russell G.  *Rhythms of life: the biological clocks that control the daily lives of every living thing.*  London, Profile Books, 2004.  276 p.               Bibliography: p. 255-269.			   QP84.6.F67 2004 <SciRR>

 Palmer, John D.  *The living clock: the orchestrator of biological rhythms.*  Oxford, New York,  Oxford University Press, 2002.  162 p.               Bibliography: p. 149-155.			   QP84.6.P35 2002

**Geological Time**

 Albritton, Claude C.  *The abyss of time: changing conceptions of the earth’s antiquity after the sixteenth century.*  Mineola, NY, Dover Publications, 2002.  251 p.    Bibliography: 231-251.   This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged republication of the edition published by Jeremy P. Tarchaer, Inc., Los Angeles, in 1986. The original edition was published by Freeman, Cooper and Company, San Francisco, in 1980.   QE508.A47 2002 <SciRR>

 Oldroyd, D. R.  *Earth cycles: a historical perspective.*  Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2006. 234 p.               Bibliography: p. 203-224.			   QE33.2.P47O63 2006

 Richet, Pascal.  *A natural history of time.*  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007.  471 p.               Bibliography: p. 373-453.			   QE508.R5413 2007

 Wyse Jackson, Patrick.  *The chronologers’ quest: episodes in the search for the age of the earth.*  		Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006.  291 p.                QE508.W97 2006 <SciRR>

 York, Derek.*In search of lost time.*  Bristol, Philadelphia, Institute of Physics Pub., c1997. 141 p. 	   QE508.Y6723 1997

**Historical**

 Bartky, Ian.  *One time fits all: the campaigns for global uniformity.*  Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2007.  292 p.   Bibliography: p. 257-282.   QB223.B37 2007

 Bartky, Ian R.  *Selling the true time: nineteenth-century timekeeping in America.*  Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, c2000.  310 p.			   Bibliography: p. 281-299.			   QB210.U5B37 2000

 Borst, Arno.  *The ordering of time: from the ancient computus to the modern computer.*  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, c1993.  168 p.                 Bibliography: p. 133-161.			     CE6.B6713 1993

 Ferraro, Rafael.  Space and time before Einstein.  In *Einstein’s space-time: an introduction to special and general relativity.*  New York, Springer, 2007.  p. 1-16.               Bibliography: p. 297-302.			   QC173.55.F475 2007

 Gorst, Martin.  *Measuring eternity: the search for the beginning of time.*  New York, Broadway Books, 2001.  338 p.                 Bibliography: p. 311-313.			     QE508.G675 2001

 Gould, Rupert Thomas.  *The marine chronometer: its history and development*.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collector’s Club, c1989.  401 p.    Includes bibliographical references.   QB107.G6 1989 <SciRR>

 Gould, Stephen Jay.  *Time’s arrow, time’s cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time.*Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987.  222 p. 		       Bibliography: p. 211-215.			   QE508.G68 1987

 Landes, David S.  *Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world.*  Rev. and enl. ed.  Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2000.  518 p.		       Includes bibliographical references.			   TS542.L24 2000

 O’Malley, Michael.  *Keeping watch: a history of American time.*  New York, Viking, 1990.    384 p.			       Bibliography: p. 313-374.			   QB223.O43 1990

 Richards, E. G.  *Mapping time: the calendar and its history.*  New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.  438 p.		       Bibliography: p. 411-428.			   CE11.R5 1999

 Stephens, Carlene E.  *On time: how America has learned to live by the clock.*   Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History; Boston, Bulfinch Press Book, c2002.  255 p.			  	   Bibliography: p. 222-248.				   TS541.U6S74 2002 <SciRR>		    

**Time, Space & Space-time**

 Barbour, Julian B.  *The end of time: the next revolution in physics*.  Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.  371 p.    Bibliography: p. 358-361.    QC173.59.S65B374 2000

 Dainton, Barry.  *Time and space.*  Chesham, Acumen, 2001.  386 p.                     Bibliography: p. 369-375.				    QC173.59.S65D35 2001 <SciRR>

 Davies, P. C. W.  *About time: Einstein’s unfinished revolution.*  New York, Simon & Schuster, c1995. 316 p.                    Bibliography: p. 293-294.				    QC173.59.S65D37 1995

 Davies, P. C. W.  *How to build a time machine.*  New York, Viking, 2002.  131 p.                    Bibliography: p. 127-128.				    QC173.59.S65D375 2002 <SciRR>

 Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir.  The world of four dimensions.  In *Space, time, and gravitation: an outline of the general relativity theory.*  Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987, c1920.  p. 45-62.			      QC173.59.S65E33 1987 <SciRR>

 Einstein, Albert.  On the idea of time in physics.  In *Relativity: the special and general theory*.  New York, Routledge, 2001. p. 23-26.			  	    QC173.55.E3613 2001 <SciRR>    Originally published: New York,  H. Holt, 1920.

 Gott, J. Richard.  *Time travel in Einstein's universe: the physical possibilities of travel through time*.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin, c2001.  291 p.  			      Bibliography: p. 265-276.			      QC173.59.S65G67 2001 <SciRR>

 Gribbin, John R.  *The birth of time: how astronomers measured the age of the universe.*  New Haven, Yale University Press, c1999.  237 p.			        Bibliography: p. 225-226.                Previously published: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.			    QB981.G756 1999

 Lockwood, Michael.  *The labyrinth of time: introducing the universe.*  New York, Oxford University Press, 2005.405 p.			     Bibliography: p. 383-397.			     QC173.59.S65L63 2005 <SciRR>

 Toomey, David M.  *The new time travelers: a journey to the frontiers of physics.*  New York, W. W. Norton, c2007. 391 p.			     Bibliography: p. 353-367.			     QC173.59.S65T66 2007

**Time Measurement**

*An Assessment of precision time and time interval science and technology.*  Committee for an Assessment of Precision Time and Interval Science and Technology, Naval Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of The National Academies.  Washington, National Academy Press, c2002.  76 p.   Includes bibliographical references.   URL: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10541   QB213.A74 2002 

 Audoin, Claude, and Bernard Guinot.  *The measurement of time: time, frequency, and the atomic clock.*Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001.  335 p.                  Bibliography: p. 317-330.			     QB213.A8313 2001 <SciRR>

 Barnett, Jo Ellen.  *Time’s pendulum: the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks.*  New York, Plenum Trade, c1998.  340 p.                 Bibliography: p. 315-329.			     QB209.B25 1998

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