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Time

Alexander Waugh

1999277 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Headline Book Publishing · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780747221784
  • 2001Carroll & Graf · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780786708703
  • 2000Carroll & Graf Publishers · 280 pages · ENGISBN 9780786707676
  • 2000Headline Book Publishing · 288 pagesISBN 9780747259886

"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.

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