Time (chronology), time systems & standards books

Exploring the rational and religious roots of human fascination with the millennium, Gould explores why humankind...  Read More >>

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Duncan leads readers on an extraordinary journey through man's reckoning of time, from the earliest calendars to...  Read More >>

The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.  Read More >>

"What is time? Stumped for an answer? This little book on time provides a Zen perspective for discovering the mystical...  Read More >>

A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened...  Read More >>

This work presents (in Latin and English) and examines the """"Kalendarium"""" of the 14th-century astronomer, John...  Read More >>

Examining perspectives on time, how and why we measure time as we do, and time in relation to our lives, the author...  Read More >>

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, ""computus"" - the science of reckoning and...  Read More >>

From the pre-Socratics to Ovid and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and...  Read More >>

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The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular....  Read More >>

He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation - if the six ages of man...  Read More >>

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Time Machines explores the idea of time travel. It covers a variety of topics including the history of time travel...  Read More >>

'Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls' explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible...  Read More >>

This text explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish...  Read More >>

In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the questions scientists and philosophers ask....  Read More >>

Does time really pass, or is our ordinary experience of time as consisting of past, present, and future an illusion?...  Read More >>

This text offers a history of the philosophy of time in Western philosophy from the Greeks through to the 20th century....  Read More >>

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A history of the philosophy of time in western philosophy from the Greeks through the Twentieth Century.  Read More >>

Answers to metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space...  Read More >>