Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time

by Richard Morris

Book Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Time's Arrow is Richard Morris' exploration of scientific attitudes toward time.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671617664
• ISBN13: 9780671617660
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Buried Treasure

I found this book along side with a bestseller "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything". This book surprised me in a way that it linked different fields of science and mathematics with time, and how the concept of time came about and how it affected human civilization. From the ancient's philosophy of cyclical time to the expansion of universe, the concept of time is not as easy as it first seem. Although this book has relatively old (1984), and a lot of information is outdated, I would strongly recommend to read this book along with "Faster" and Steven Hawkings' "A Brief History of Time".