Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

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...

This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious r...

In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about t...

The Medieval Calendar Year celebrates the pictorial convention known as "The Labors of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. Ric...

The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the Wes...

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. ...

In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, tim...

With a Foreword by Steven WeinbergIn this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describ...

A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the “reversibility paradox”, wit...

In this volume, leading researchers bring together current work on time perception and time-based prospective memory in order to understand how peo...

Time and matter are the most fundamental concepts in physics and in any science-based description of the world around us. Quantum theory has, howev...

This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory antholo...

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, ...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the uni...

Why does time appear to run in only one direction? We remember the past- but why not the future? We can influence the future- but could we, even th...

The Idea of Time Charles Hepworth Holland Trinity College, Dublin, Eire What is time? What do we understand when we think about time? What do we me...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the uni...

The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often be...

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries technical chronology, the study of calendars and of dates in ancient and medieval history, was both a ...

In the early ninth century, George Synkellos, a monk of Constantinople set out to compose (in Greek) a universal chronicle beginning with the creat...

Questions of Time and Tense aims to develop and broaden a central debate in contemporary metaphysics. This debate focuses on questions about the na...

This book is intended as an introduction to the philosophical problems of space and time, suitable for any reader who has an interest in the nature...

Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. ...

This book is an introduction to a basic property of life, one mostly unknown to science and the public until the latter half of the last century: H...

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

God and Time is a collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading philosophers about God's relation to time. The essays have been se...

Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these ...

"Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that 'me...

In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rathe...

Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives. We are aware of time on many scales, from the briefest flicker of change to the way ...

The system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated with Dionysius Exiguus. Dionysius drafted a 95-year table of dates...

Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that be...

Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that be...

Time is the one thing that is shared by all of humanity, irrespective of wealth, health, race or credo; and one of the things that makes us individ...

The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days. Measuring the daily and yearly cyc...

** Shortlisted for the BOOKS ARE MY BAG Readers Award for Children's Fiction **‘Clever, inventive and a cracking read’ – Eoin Colfer, author of Art...

The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethink...

In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating ...

Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead—and remarked, to his great sur...

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an inter...

The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked ...

Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we seem to experi...

The most important debate between twentieth-century philosophers of time has been whether events that have happened, are happening, or will happen ...