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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11650634.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280).".
- catalog description "Initium (Beginning) -- Momenta (Seconds) -- Minutae (Minutes) -- Horae (Hours) -- Dies (Days) -- Septimanae (Weeks) -- Menses (Months) -- Anni (Years) -- Decades (Decades) -- Saecula (Centuries) -- Millennia (Millennia) -- Aetates (Eras) -- Aeternitas (Eternity) -- Tempus obsoletum (Primitive time) -- Empus non simplex (Complex time) -- Finis (End).".
- catalog extent "280 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0786707674".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf,".
- catalog subject "115 21".
- catalog subject "BD638 .W38 2000".
- catalog subject "Time History.".
- catalog subject "Time measurements.".
- catalog subject "Time.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Initium (Beginning) -- Momenta (Seconds) -- Minutae (Minutes) -- Horae (Hours) -- Dies (Days) -- Septimanae (Weeks) -- Menses (Months) -- Anni (Years) -- Decades (Decades) -- Saecula (Centuries) -- Millennia (Millennia) -- Aetates (Eras) -- Aeternitas (Eternity) -- Tempus obsoletum (Primitive time) -- Empus non simplex (Complex time) -- Finis (End).".
- catalog title "Time : its origin, its enigma, its history / Alexander Waugh.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".