Time in History: The Evolution of Our General Awareness of Time and Temporal Perspective <i>by Gerald J. Whitrow</i> (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988), pp. x + 217, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-215361-7

Gans, Joshua S.

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Time in History: The Evolution of Our General Awareness of Time and Temporal Perspective by Gerald J. Whitrow (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988), pp. x + 217, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-215361-7

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Publication date (Print): December 1990

Journal: Prometheus

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): December 1990

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 390-393

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Publisher ID: 8629496 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1990: pp. 390–393

DOI: 10.1080/08109029008629496

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For example, see D. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1983.
Our current standards of time are no longer precisely associated with the movements of the Earth around the sun or the turning of the Earth but on atomic oscillations at the quantum level which define the second. This standard, in turn, determines other measuring yardsticks such as those for distance which derive from the speed light travels in a second.
Once again, however, those wanting an in-depth discussion of such issues would probably wish to try elsewhere. For example, an excellent recent compilation is R. Flood and M. Lockwood (eds), The Nature of Time, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.

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[1] For example, see D. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1983.

[2] Our current standards of time are no longer precisely associated with the movements of the Earth around the sun or the turning of the Earth but on atomic oscillations at the quantum level which define the second. This standard, in turn, determines other measuring yardsticks such as those for distance which derive from the speed light travels in a second.

[3] Once again, however, those wanting an in-depth discussion of such issues would probably wish to try elsewhere. For example, an excellent recent compilation is R. Flood and M. Lockwood (eds), The Nature of Time, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.