The compiler of Time: A Bibliographic Guide (Garland, 1991) used that reference to locate the subjects which have been energized by a concern with time, to identify their relationships with other such subjects, and to help in identifying appropriate articles and potential authors. The result is th
The compiler of Time: A Bibliographic Guide (Garland, 1991) used that reference to locate the subjects which have been energized by a concern with tim...
The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West's wide-ranging effort to rationalize human activity--to simplify and standardize the way we work and communicate with one another. In "The Dynamics of Progress," Macey examines the history of such rationalizations as they have manifested themselves. He identifies a symbiotic relationship among these different types of rationalization, demonstrating that without the rationalizing of time, weights and measures, numbers, and language, the scientific, technological, and...
The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West's wide-ranging effort to r...
Exploring the personifications 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 reflect the dilemma in the Western mind between the joys...
Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, "Patriar...
