ISBN:
1858940729
,
1858940737
Language:
English
Pages:
304 S
,
zahlr. Ill
,
29 cm
DDC:
529
Keywords:
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
;
Time
;
Time Exhibitions
;
Time Philosophy
;
Time Social aspects
;
National Maritime Museum
;
Time Exhibitions
;
Time
;
Time Philosophy
;
Time Social aspects
;
Ausstellungskatalog 1999
;
Ausstellungskatalog 1999
;
Philosophie
;
Zeit
;
Zeit
Abstract:
Times / by Umberto Eco -- From observation to record : astronomy in prehistory and the early civilizations / by John North -- The principles and uses of calendars / by Silke Ackermann -- Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars / by Anthony Aveni -- Time and space in Islam / by David A. King -- Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China / by Michael Loewe -- Cycles, seasons and stages of life : time in a Japanese context / by Joy Hendry -- Inuit time / by John MacDonald -- Of spheres and shadows / by Elly Dekker -- The growth of modern timekeeping / by Jonathan Betts -- The image of vanitas : efflorescence and evanescence / by Ivan Gaskell -- Time and the portrait / by Lorne Campbell -- Seasons and moments : time and nineteenth-century art / by John House -- "These fragments I have shored against my ruins" / by Marcia Pointon -- Art and time in the twentieth century / by Dawn Ades -- Music and time / by Iain Fenlon -- Does time heal? Time in the history of medicine / by Ken Arnold -- The history of anniversaries : time, number and sign / by E.H. Gombrich -- Time and history / by Felipe Fern(c)Łndez-Armesto -- Geologists' time : a brief history / by Martin Rudwick -- Australian aboriginal concepts of time / by Howard Morphy -- Egyptian time / by Anthony Spalinger -- Understanding the beginning and the end / by Martin Rees
Description / Table of Contents:
Times / by Umberto Eco -- From observation to record : astronomy in prehistory and the early civilizations / by John North -- The principles and uses of calendars / by Silke Ackermann -- Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars / by Anthony Aveni -- Time and space in Islam / by David A. King -- Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China / by Michael Loewe -- Cycles, seasons and stages of life : time in a Japanese context / by Joy Hendry -- Inuit time / by John MacDonald -- Of spheres and shadows / by Elly Dekker -- The growth of modern timekeeping / by Jonathan Betts -- The image of vanitas : efflorescence and evanescence / by Ivan Gaskell -- Time and the portrait / by Lorne Campbell -- Seasons and moments : time and nineteenth-century art / by John House -- "These fragments I have shored against my ruins" / by Marcia Pointon -- Art and time in the twentieth century / by Dawn Ades -- Music and time / by Iain Fenlon -- Does time heal? Time in the history of medicine / by Ken Arnold -- The history of anniversaries : time, number and sign / by E.H. Gombrich -- Time and history / by Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- Geologists' time : a brief history / by Martin Rudwick -- Australian aboriginal concepts of time / by Howard Morphy -- Egyptian time / by Anthony Spalinger -- Understanding the beginning and the end / by Martin Rees.
Note:
Publ. in assoc. with the National Maritime Museum
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