Time and its mysteries.
Contributors: Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.; Merriam, John C. 1869-1945.; Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.; Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935.; Hering, Daniel Webster, 1850-1938.; Swann, W. F. G. 1884-1962.; Dewey, John, 1859-1952.; Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962.; Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957.; Knopf, Adolph, 1882-; Shotwell, James Thomson, 1874-1965.; Luckey, George P.; James Arthur Foundation.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Time.
Notes: "Lectures given on the James Arthur Foundation, New York University."
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ser. 1. Time / Robert Andrew Millikan. Time and change in history / Joseph Campbell Merriam. On the lifetime of a galaxy / Harlow Shapley. The beginnings of time-measurement and the origins of our calendar / James Henry Breasted. 1936; title: Ser. 2. The time concept and time sense among cultured and uncultured peoples / Daniel Webster Hering. What is time? / William Francis Gray Swann. Time and individuality / John Dewey. Time and the growth of physics / Arthur H. Compton. 1940; title: Ser. 3. The time scale of the universe / Henry Norris Russell. The geologic records of time / Adolph Knopf. Time and historical perspective / James T. Shotwell. Developments in portable timepieces / George P. Luckey. 1949.