Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

A readable and entertaining look at how Einstein’s special theory of relativity gives us a new understanding of the nature of timeRelativity ought ...

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However,...

A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical - lawyers' calculatio...

Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarc...

John Somer was one of the leading English astronomers of the late fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer likely consulted Somer’s Kalendarium to rela...

The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West’s wide-ranging effort to r...

Standing as a summary of Spalinger's ideas at the time of the Yale lectures in 2012, this study covers two research sides of modern Egyptological r...

In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? I...

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to “discover” the truth of time, to determine whether time is in...

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to “discover” the truth of time, to determine whether time is in...

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction...

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction...

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some ca...

This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the world-wide system of timekeeping by wh...

A fascinating examination of the possibility of time travel and the scientific breakthrough that may make it happen.

The year 1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This text explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Sc...

McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very litt...

What happens when the century's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Gdel and Albert Einstein, the result ...

"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a ...

This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge o...

All religion and much philosophy has been concerned with the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. Human beings have always sought ways t...

This book brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'.

Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of a...