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It's about time : from calendars and clocks to mooncycles and light years -- a history / Liz Evers.

By: Publisher: Traverse City, Mich. : NMC, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013.Description: 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781782430674
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QB209 .E94 2013
Contents:
The land before time : geologic time, ice ages, dinosaurs and distant cousins -- Marking time : early timekeepers: from sun to standing stones and calendars to Computus -- Keeping time : the advent of hours and the first clocks to capture them -- The best of times : the golden age of timekeepers and the science of time -- Modern times : how we tell and keep time today and the cleverest clocks around -- Future time : the speed of time - how we experience and move through it -- Space-time : wormholes, black holes, light years and the multiverse -- Thinking time : time and how we perceive it.

Includes bibliography and index.

The land before time : geologic time, ice ages, dinosaurs and distant cousins -- Marking time : early timekeepers: from sun to standing stones and calendars to Computus -- Keeping time : the advent of hours and the first clocks to capture them -- The best of times : the golden age of timekeepers and the science of time -- Modern times : how we tell and keep time today and the cleverest clocks around -- Future time : the speed of time - how we experience and move through it -- Space-time : wormholes, black holes, light years and the multiverse -- Thinking time : time and how we perceive it.

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