A book about time. Secrets of time: how it works, and how we measure it. Facts. Riddles. Discoveries: Adam Hart-Davis

Our attitude to time and its perception, the influence of time on us and the whole world as a whole, the usual ways to measure the time … Stopping for a moment in order to think about all this, we begin to realize how important the category of time in our life is.
The Book of Time will tell the reader as philosophers, religious figures and scientists try to explain the riddles of the time, representing it differently – from the perfect cycle to complete chaos. From the book you will learn how the natural hours and biological watches work, laid in our body and mind, how people measure time from antiquity to this day, having gone from calendars, water and fiery hours to modern atomic hours.
The book tells how great the time was for scientists from Aristotle to Einstein, who sought to comprehend the secrets of the universe and all that things in it. The author also considers the issue of time travel and, in particular, how much they can be.
The book gives the values ​​of various …

Author
Hart Davis Adam
Editor
Khlebnova T.I.
Translator
Boris L.A.
Publisher
Art-building, 2013