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Hardcover The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer Book

ISBN: 0226066584

ISBN13: 9780226066585

The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer

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This book is a concise history of the use and interpretation of time, written by one of the foremost medievalists in Europe today.

Arno Borst examines the various ways that time has been calculated by numbers and measured by instruments over several centuries, from the computus--an ancient method of determining times and dates--to the present-day computer. In a wide-ranging discussion, he analyzes the classical Greek concepts of divine,...

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