History of Time : A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 51598)

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International Standard Book Number 9780192804990
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Classification number 529.3 HOL
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Personal name Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
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Title History of Time : A Very Short Introduction
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2005
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Title Very Short Introductions
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Summary, etc 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?<br/><br/>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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronomy
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Calendars
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technical chronology
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Time--History
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