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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"In this philosophical rumination on time, Mainzer delves rigorously into time's logical constructs as they have been devised over the history of occidental science." Booklist
"Klaus Mainzer … provides a brief overview of the concept of time from antiquity to the present. … The Little Book of Time succinctly and clearly covers human concepts of time, from the ancients to Newton to Einstein’s theory of relativity and the conceptions of time in quantum mechanics, with its profound consequences for modern cosmology." (Science in Africa, October, 2002)
"Time is a big subject … . The book will probably be interesting to enthusiasts … . The flavor is philosophical, which is not surprising since Mainzer is a philosopher. … the book is a nice summary." (Thomas R. Berger, MathDL, January, 2004)
Authors and Affiliations
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Augsburg, Germany
Klaus Mainzer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Little Book of Time
Authors: Klaus Mainzer
Series Title: Little Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4332-6
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95288-8Published: 19 August 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2939-6Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4332-6Published: 14 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 176
Additional Information: Original German edition published by C.H.Beck Verlag Munich, Germany, 1999
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History of Science, Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general