An edition of Time's Arrows
(1984)
Time's Arrows
Scientific Attitudes Toward Time
by Richard Morris
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This exploration of Western attitudes toward time traces these attitudes from ancient Greece through the Christian Middle Ages, with nearly half of the exposition devoted to modern scientific concepts, including relativity, biological time, the "direction" of time, and cosmic time
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Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time
January 7, 1986, Touchstone
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0671617664 9780671617660
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Time's arrows: Scientific attitudes toward time
January 1, 1984, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover
in English
0671501585 9780671501587
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First Sentence
"SOME QUESTIONS SEEM TOO trivial to merit serious consideration, but often these are the very questions that become most puzzling when we examine them in detail."
Table of Contents
1. What Is Time?
2. Cyclical Time and Linear Time
3. Abstract Time
4. Calculus and the Idea of Determinism
5. The Discovery of the Past and the Idea of Progress
6. The Age of the World
7. Entropy and the Direction of Time
8. The Five Arrows of Time
9. Relativistic Tme
10. Cosmic Time
11. The Beginning and End of Time
12. What Is Time?
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