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In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and... Læs mere
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Brings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. This book also considers... Læs mere
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How long does it take light from the Sun to reach Earth? What do we call one millionth of a billionth of a second? What animals change colour in different seasons?... Læs mere
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A Psychohistory of Metaphors traces how, in response to historical change, metaphors have expanded our introspective... Læs mere
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From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian... Læs mere
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.
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What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are presently witnessing a second Copernican revolution:... Læs mere
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Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers,... Læs mere
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With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. Although the equally pervasive and abstract concept of space has generated a vast body of disciplines...
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In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with the 17th-century revolution in clock technology, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
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Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal... Læs mere