The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction
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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-280499-0
- EAN: 9780192804990
- Produktnummer: 1469020
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H17.2 cm x B11.2 cm x D0.9 cm 142 g
- Abbildungen: numerous b/w line illustrations and halftones
- Gewicht: 142
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
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.
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