The History of Time
A Very Short Introduction
$29.68
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2005
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192804990 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0192804995 |
| Author: | Leofranc Holford-Strevens |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 143g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 111mm x 174mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has a long-standing interest in calendars, chronologies, and the calculation of time.
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