Time: Its Origins Its Enigma, Its History: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History - Brossura

Waugh, Alexander

 
9780786708703: Time: Its Origins Its Enigma, Its History: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History
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ISBN 10: 0786708700 ISBN 13: 9780786708703
Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2001

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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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Book by Waugh Alexander

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Editore
Basic Books
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0786708700
ISBN 13 
9780786708703
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0786707674 ISBN 13:  9780786707676
Casa editrice: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2000
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