The History of Time

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Leofranc Holford-Strevens

页数:160

出版时间:2005-10-27

价格:USD 11.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780192804990

丛书系列:Very Short Introductions

图书标签:VSI牛津通识读本历法Oxford英文原版科学历史学。

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? 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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从目录来看。。讲的东西还是有逻辑的。。但是不管怎么样 全是这些历法 还是有些读不进去

it is just everything about time, literally, time..

从目录来看。。讲的东西还是有逻辑的。。但是不管怎么样 全是这些历法 还是有些读不进去

boring

it is just everything about time, literally, time..