5 - June 2000 Astronomy 778. Idea of Time , by Charles Hepworth Holland. New York, NY, John Wiley, 1999. Further Reading 139 Index 147 Time has been viewed and measured in a variety of aspects.
Time is as much a geological measurement as it is philosophical or human perception.
There has been a considerable amount of literature written about time in physical and biological sciences, arts and humanities, philosophy and religion. The Idea of Time focuses on the aspects of time related to the physical and biological sciences yet incorporates aspects of time related to the humanities and social sciences. In less than two hundred pages numerous aspects of time are addressed in this source. The primary focus is on the measurement of time in relation to geology. Author Charles Hepworth Holland devotes chapters to geologic time measurements such as geochronometry, stratigraphy and radiometric dating.