Title: Timescale : an atlas of the fourth dimension /
Authors: Calder, Nigel.
Publisher: Viking Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Time.; Chronology.
Abstract: Explains our concept of time and methods of dating events, uses maps and timelines to show what has happened from the creation of the universe to the launch of the space shuttle, and provides an index to key events.
Contents: Charts of time -- The physics of history -- Havoc in the sky -- Radiometric revolutions -- Fossil compasses and thermometers -- Museums versus molecules -- How to be a Martian -- The biology of history -- Causality is not destiny -- The logarithmic imagination.