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The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction

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 | #947655 in Books |  imusti |  2005-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  4.30 x.40 x6.80l,.30 | File type: PDF | 160 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Title misleading but fascinating book on the history of calendar-making|By Lizzz|Life on Planet Earth reckons time by solar day/night and seasons and by lunar months.
However, solar days do not fit evenly into the solar year, nor do solar and lunar cycles match up neatly.
Therefore, human civilizations have struggled to invent mathematical models of time that reliably

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 calendars lunar and some solar?
The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction   |  Leofranc Holford-Strevens. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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