Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History - Couverture rigide

Waugh, Alexander

 
9780786707676: Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
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ISBN 10 : 0786707674 ISBN 13 : 9780786707676
Editeur : Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Waugh Alexander

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fresh and accessible, entertaining and informative, this volume by Alexander Waugh recounts the flops and follies, triumphs and fears, crackpot theories and wondrous discoveries that have shaped the way humans have conceived of time since its dawn. His cast of 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, Waugh moves with urbanity and aplomb from the stuff of myth to the theory of relativity. Calendars, eons, minutes, eternity -- no element of time is overlooked in this delightful and enlightening tour of science and history. It reveals, for instance, that atomic clocks can now tell time with an accuracy that loses only one second every 316,000 years. On the other hand, it also discloses that in ancient Rome no one noticed for ninety-nine years that a public sundial was recording time consistently wrong.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786707674
ISBN 13 
9780786707676
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0786708700 ISBN 13 :  9780786708703
Editeur : Basic Books, 2001
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