The history of time: a very short introduction
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Main Author: Holford-Strevens, Leofranc 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] Oxford University Press 2005
Series:Very short introductions 133
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index
The day -- Months and years -- Prehistory and history of the modern calendar -- Easter -- Weeks and seasons -- Other calendars -- Marking the year
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (144 p.)
ISBN:0191517062
1280752815
9780191517068
9781280752810

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