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Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures
Author: Anthony F. Aveni
Basic Books
1989
ISBN: 0465019501
Pages: 384
Language: English
Format: PDF
Size: 153 MB

Humanity has always felt a powerful need to impose scale and order on that most elusive and transient of elements: time. But what ends do our clocks and calenders really serve?

Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures