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

by Arno Borst

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226066584
• ISBN13: 9780226066585
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"