Time in history : views of time from prehistory to the present day
Calendar - Pendulum clock - Metonic calendrical cycle - Mechanical clock - Sand clock - Sanskrit - Solar calendar - Water clock - Time in the middle ages - Time in the modern world - World history
Print Book, English, 1989
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989
Chronology
x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780192852113, 0192852116
21182984
Part I Introduction: Awareness of time
Describing time
Part II Time in antiquity and the Middle Ages: Time at the dawn of history
Time in Classical antiquity
Time in the Middle Ages
Time in the Far East and Mesoamerica
Part III Time in the modern world: The advent of the mechanical clock
Time and history in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
Time and history of the Eighteenth century
Evolution and the Industrial Revolution
Rival concepts of time
Time, history, and progress
Originally published: Oxford University Press, 1988