An edition of El Tiempo En La Historia
(1988)
Time in History
Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day
by G. J. Whitrow
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1. Introduction
1. Awareness of Time
Time and civil life
Our sense of time
Time and mankind
2. 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
3. Time at the dawn of history
Prehistory
Ancient Egypt
Sumeria and Babylonia
Ancient Iran
4. Time in Classical Antiquity
Classical Greece and Hellenistic civilization
Ancient Israel
Imperial Rome and early Christianity
5. Time in the Middle Ages
Medieval Europe
The Islamic World
The periodization of history and millenarianism
The measurement of time
6. Time in the Far East and Mesoamerica
India
China
The Maya
Part III. Time in the Modern World
7. The Advent of the Mechanical Clock
The invention of the verge escapment
The social influence of the mechanical clock
8. 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 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
9. Time and History in the Eighteenth Century
The invention of the marine chronometer
The discovery of historical perspective
10. Evolution and the Industrial Revolution
The evolutionary universe
The role of time in modern industrial society
11. Rival Concepts of Time
Instant and duration
Relativistic and cosmic time
12. Time, History, and 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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