Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures
- ISBN-10
- 1860646026
- ISBN-13
- 9781860646027
- Category
- Archaeoastronomy
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author
- Anthony F. Aveni
Description
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?
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