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The history of time: a very short introduction

Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter. - ;Why do we measure time in the way that we...

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Autor principal: Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Oxford Univ. Press 2005
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1152027