Time in history : the evolution of our general awareness of time and temporal perspective
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Time in history : the evolution of our general awareness of time and temporal perspective
Oxford University Press, c1988
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Questions about some of the fundamental characteristics of the concept of time are discussed in this study which traces the evolution of our general awareness of time and its significance from the dawn of history to the present day. The author examines the development of our methods of measuring time and discusses the way in which our changing concept of time has influenced history itself. Professor Whitrow presents an account of the different ways in which time has been perceived by various civilizations throughout history, from prehistoric times to the present day and ranging from Ancient Egypt and Persia, Israel and the Islamic world to China, India, Europe and America.
目次
- Part 1 Introduction: awareness of time - time and civil life, our sense of time, time and mankind
- describing time - time, language and number, time and natural bases of measurement, time in contemporary society. Part 2 Time in antiquity and the Middle Ages: time at the dawn of history - prehistory, ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Babylon, ancient Iran
- time in classical antiquity - classical Greece and Hellenistic civilization, ancient Israel, Imperial Rome and early Christendom
- time in the Middle Ages - medieval Europe, the Islamic world, the periodization of time and millenarianism, the measurement of time
- time in the Far East and Mesoamerica - India, China, the Maya. Part 3 Time in the modern world: the advent of the mechanical clock - the invention of the verge escapement, the social influence of the mechanical clock
- time and history in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution - reform of the calendar, the pendulum clock and the clocklike universe, attitudes to time and history in the 16th and 17th centuries
- time and history in the 18th century - the invention of the marine chronometer, the discovery of historical perspective
- evolution and the Industrial Revolution - the evolutionary universe, the role of time in modern industrial society
- rival concepts of time - instant and duration, relativistic and cosmic time
- civilization as progress? - time and belief in progress, time, history and the computerized society. Appendices: 1 - leap years
- 2 - the metonic calendrical cycle
- 3 - the calculation of Easter. References. Index.
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