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Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, time's measurements and divisions, as well as covering other scientific and interdisciplinary areas: biology, economics and political science, horology, history, medicine, geography, geology and telecommunications.
Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
Exploring the personications of time by which Western
civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly
existence and eternity, "Patriarchs of Time" traces the lineage of
time's gods from the deities of ancient Mesopotamia and Persia
through the pantheons of Greece and Rome, the Christian Father
Time, and the brief reign of the Newtonian Watchmaker God to the
consumerist Santa Claus who holds sway over the year's end
celebrations of our own day. Each of these patriarchs, Samuel L.
Macey shows, has embodied dualisms that re ect the dilemma in the
Western mind between the joys and woes of our brief time on earth
and the promise of eternal life or eternal punishment in the
hereafter.
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