Evers, Liz.

It's about time : from calendars and clocks to mooncycles and light years -- a history / Liz Evers. - 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Includes bibliography and index.

The land before time : geologic time, ice ages, dinosaurs and distant cousins -- Marking time : early timekeepers: from sun to standing stones and calendars to Computus -- Keeping time : the advent of hours and the first clocks to capture them -- The best of times : the golden age of timekeepers and the science of time -- Modern times : how we tell and keep time today and the cleverest clocks around -- Future time : the speed of time - how we experience and move through it -- Space-time : wormholes, black holes, light years and the multiverse -- Thinking time : time and how we perceive it.

9781782430674


Calendar--History.
Time--History.

QB209 / .E94 2013