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The History of Time - Leofranc Holford-Strevens

The History of Time

A Very Short Introduction
Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-280499-0 (ISBN)
CHF 17,50 inkl. MwSt
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.
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 organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

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Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has a long-standing interest in calendars, chronologies, and the calculation of time.

Preface ; 1. Principles of time measurement ; 2. Prehistory and history of the modern calendar ; 3. Weeks and seasons ; 4. Easter ; 5. Other calendars ; 6. Marking the year ; 7. Dividing the day ; Further Reading

Reihe/Serie Very Short Introductions
Zusatzinfo numerous b/w line illustrations and halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 174 mm
Gewicht 143 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Chronologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-19-280499-5 / 0192804995
ISBN-13 978-0-19-280499-0 / 9780192804990
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