Time - Softcover

Waugh, Alexander

 
9780747259886: Time
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0747259887 ISBN 13: 9780747259886
Verlag: Headline Book Publishing, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In the vein of popular science successes such as THE CALENDAR and FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM, TIME looks at man's obsessive and ingenious efforts to measure and label the dimension that dominates our lives. Waugh looks at every aspect of time - from the Big Bang, through clock time and calendars to the end of time. Drawing on Waugh's polymathic knowledge of art, music, literature, science and social history, this is a hugely entertaining examination of the big questions about time: how were seconds, minutes and hours agreed; how were the various calendars arrived at and why are there twelve months in a year and seven days in a week?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Waugh is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh and son of columnist Auberon Waugh and novelist Teresa Waugh. The former chief Opera Critic at both the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard, he is also a publisher (Travelman Publishing), cartoonist and award-winning composer.

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Verlag
Headline Book Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747259887
ISBN 13 
9780747259886
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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