Pocket • 2005 • Engelsk

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction

Name: The History of Time
SKU: 9780192804990
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Av Leofranc Holford-Strevens

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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 ex...Vis mer

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9780192804990

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OUP Oxford

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2005

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Engelsk

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The History of Time

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Pocket

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