What is time?: the classic account of the nature of time
Auteur :
Whitrow, G. J.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198607816
Date de publication :
11 déc. 2003
Dimensions :
19,5 x 12,8 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
160 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Professor Whitrow takes us on a good-humoured tour of the thing that clocks keep (more or less). He discusses how our ideas of time originated; how far they are inborn in plants and animals; how time has been measured, from sundial and hourglass to the caesium clock, and whether time possesses a beginning, a direction, and an end.