The book of time - Adam Hart-Davis

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Title
The book of time - the secrets of time, how it works and how we measure it
Author
Adam Hart-Davis
format
Hardback
Publisher
Mitchell Beazley
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20111003

In The Book of Time we see how philosophers, religions and scientists have tried to explain time
as everything from a perfect cycle to ever-increasing chaos. We see how time works in the natural world and in our own bodies and minds, and how we've tried to measure it - first with calendars, then with increasingly sophisticated devices, from the Ancient Indian ghati and to the latest atomic clock.And from Aristotle to Einstein, we explore how time has been essential for scientists in their quest to understand the universe and everything in it. Not forgetting the deliciously weird world of time travel, explaining what is fact and what is fiction. This is the kind of book that you can dip into or read in depth - but either way we promise time will just fly by...

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Adam Hart-Davis is a scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well-known for presenting the BBC television series "Local Heroes" and "What the Romans Did for Us" (and spinoff series on the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Ancients). He was also a co-presenter of "Tomorrow's World", and presented "Science Shack". His most recent book is Science: The Definitive Visual History (Dorling Kindersley).

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Time - Popular works.|Time measurements - Popular works.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
256

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