Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Document Type: | Book |
---|---|
All Authors / Contributors: |
G J Whitrow |
ISBN: | 0192852116 9780192852113 |
OCLC Number: | 21182984 |
Notes: | Originally published: Oxford University Press, 1988. |
Description: | x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Preface; Part I - Introduction; Part II - Time in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Part III - Time in the Modern World; Appendices; References; Index |
Series Title: | Oxford paperbacks. |
Responsibility: | G.J. Whitrow. |
Abstract:
A study of the evolution of our general awareness of time and its significance from earliest times, ranging from Ancient Egypt and Persia, Greece, and Israel, to the Islamic world, India and China, and Europe and America, showing the different ways time has been perceived by various civilizations.
Read more...
Reviews
Editorial reviews
Publisher Synopsis
fascinating survey of "time" as it has been seen throughout history ... essential reading for anyone fascinated by time New Scientist His book is well written and judiciously selective TLS
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Time in history : views of time from prehistory to the present day".
Be the first.