Dimensions
129 x 197 x 20mm
From Micro-Seconds to Millennia - A Search for the Right Time
In a narrative which spans the whole of time, this book explains the mysteries of time and the human struggle to measure it, use it and understand it. How were the clock and the calendar originally conceived? How were years, days, hours and seconds divided up? Will time ever end? From primitive homo erectus to modern man and beyond, Alexander Waugh revels the characters and stories behind the science - the failures and triumphs, follies and fears which have shaped the way we think of time today.
