Time
Subtitle: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers; Carroll & Graf
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780786707676
Subjects: World - General; Science; History; History: World; Metaphysics; Time (chronology); Time; Time measurements
Description: "Calendars, eons, nanoseconds, millennia - no instrument or measurement is overlooked in this wholly entertaining and intellectually bracing book which chronicles the enduring human quest to explain, utilize, and understand the enigma of time." "An informal and informative tour through science and history, it introduces a host of colorful characters ranging from the primitive homo erectus to modern time explorers, from Zeno to Caesar to Pope Gregory, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity posited time as the fourth dimension of our physical universe."--Jacket.