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Preface Introduction Awareness of Time Time and civil life Our sense of time Time and mankind Describing Time Time, language, and number Time and natural bases of measurement Time in contemporary society Time in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Time at the dawn of history Prehistory Ancient Egypt Sumeria and Babylonia Ancient Iran Time in Classical Antiquity Classical Greece and Hellenistic civilization Ancient Israel Imperial Rome and early Christianity Time in the Middle Ages Medieval Europe The Islamic World The periodization of history and millenarianism The measurement of time Time in the Far East and Mesoamerica India China The Maya Time in the Modern World The Advent of the Mechanical Clock The invention of the verge escapment The social influence of the mechanical clock 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 Time and History in the Eighteenth Century The invention of the marine chronometer The discovery of historical perspective Evolution and the Industrial Revolution The evolutionary universe The role of time

Who reads Time in History : Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day?

Author

G. J. Whitrow

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780760755495

Category

history

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Humanities

Rating

3.58 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14