by G J Whitrow ✦ Review by David Lorimer, April 2004
This classic account was first published in 1972 and ranges across our whole understanding of time - philosophical, scientific and cultural. Beginning with the origins of our ideas of time, the author moves on to biological clocks and the ways in which we have measured time. The first mechanical clocks date from the middle of the 14th century, at which point we also find the division of the hour and minute into 60. Whitrow then discusses relativity theory, gravitation and the 'arrow of time' before concluding with a few remarks about the significance of time. The founder of the Society for the Study of Time, Dr. J.T. Fraser, contributes a foreword and a useful bibliographic essay.
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