Time in History
Subtitle: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780760755495
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction
label: Part 1; title: Awareness of Time
label: 1; title: Time and civil life; title: Our sense of time; title: Time and mankind; title: Describing Time
label: 2; title: Time, language, and number; title: Time and natural bases of measurement; title: Time in contemporary society; title: Time in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
label: Part 2; title: Time at the dawn of history
label: 3; title: Prehistory; title: Ancient Egypt; title: Sumeria and Babylonia; title: Ancient Iran; title: Time in Classical Antiquity
label: 4; title: Classical Greece and Hellenistic civilization; title: Ancient Israel; title: Imperial Rome and early Christianity; title: Time in the Middle Ages
label: 5; title: Medieval Europe; title: The Islamic World; title: The periodization of history and millenarianism; title: The measurement of time; title: Time in the Far East and Mesoamerica
label: 6; title: India; title: China; title: The Maya; title: Time in the Modern World
label: Part III; title: The Advent of the Mechanical Clock
label: 7; title: The invention of the verge escapment; title: The social influence of the mechanical clock; title: Time and History in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
label: 8; title: Reform of the calendar; title: The pendulum clock and the clocklike universe; title: Attitudes to time and history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; title: Time and History in the Eighteenth Century
label: 9; title: The invention of the marine chronometer; title: The discovery of historical perspective; title: Evolution and the Industrial Revolution
label: 10; title: The evolutionary universe; title: The role of time in modern industrial society; title: Rival Concepts of Time
label: 11; title: Instant and duration; title: Relativistic and cosmic time; title: Time, History, and Progress
label: 12; title: Time and belief in progress; title: Time, history, and the computerized society; title: Appendices; title: 1 Leap Years; title: 2 The Metonic Calendrical Cycle; title: 3 The Calculation of Easter; title: References; title: Index