Time travel : a history / James Gleick.
Time travel : a history / James Gleick.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2016/4691
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Language
English
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Physical content
336 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1.Machine -- 2.Fin de Siecle -- 3.Philosophers and Pulps -- 4.Ancient Light -- 5.By Your Bootstraps -- 6.Arrow of Time -- 7.A River, a Path, a Maze -- 8.Eternity -- 9.Buried Time -- 10.Backward -- 11.The Paradoxes -- 12.What Is Time? -- 13.Our Only Boat -- 14.Presently.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological--the electric telegraph, the...
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Full title
Time travel : a history / James Gleick.
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Author / Creator
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2016/4691
Record Identifier
74VKV6Mze5Wy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV6Mze5Wy
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ISBN
9780307908797 (hard cover : alk. paper)
DDC
530.11
MMS ID
991024020718902626
