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Multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural, The Story of Time is published to mark the millennium and examine the very quality that gives the millennium its meaning.'

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Time is so much the medium in which we live that it wraps a vast all-embracing cape about seemingly disconnected subjects - the heartbeat, agriculture, the Last Judgment, photography, menstruation, the seasonal adaptation of animals ... and so on ad infinitum. Hence, in part, the problem with this tantalizing and lavishly illustrated but ultimately unsatisfying exhibition catalogue-cum-anthology. A vast range of artefacts, each with its captioned story to tell, is illustrated in finely reproduced but often undersized photographs. Interleaved with these catalogue pages are substantial essays on subjects related to creation; clocks, calendars and the like; views of time in art; our experience of time as human beings; and, by way of apocalyptic finale, the prospect of time's destruction. Even light browsing through this book rapidly brings on information overload: our brain is asked to perform too many somersaults in rapid succession. But how does the book stack up as a work of reference? By way of experiment I looked up the Age of Aquarius in the index, and then I looked up precession (the wobble of the earth on its axis, which explains why we are about to enter this much-heralded astrological era): no mention of either. (Kirkus UK)

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