Mazur Joseph The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time 9780300229325

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Автор: Mazur Joseph (Джозф Мазур)
Название: The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
Перевод названия: Джозф Мазур: Мираж часов. Наш миф об измеренном времени
ISBN: 9780300229325
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Социальная история и история культуры

История естественных наук

Время (хронология), системы и стандарты времени

ISBN-10: 0300229321
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.64 кг.
Дата издания: 21.04.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 22 b-w illus.
Размер: 165 x 241 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Our myth of measured time
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Named one of Book Riots Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time

A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully written.--John Carey, Sunday Times (London)

A tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles?

Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Readers learn that, as a consequence of times personal nature, a forty-eight-hour journey on the space shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule, that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages, and that time speeds up with fever and slows down when we feel in danger.

With a narrative punctuated by personal stories of times effects on truck drivers, Olympic racers, prisoners, and clockmakers, Mazurs journey is filled with fascinating insights into how our technologies, our bodies, and our attitudes can change our perceptions. Ultimately, time reveals itself as something that rides on the rhythms of our minds. The Clock Mirage presents an innovative perspective that will force us to rethink our relationship with time, and how best to use it.

The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time, Mazur Joseph