Encyclopedia of time : science, philosophy, theology, & culture / H. James Birx, editor.

A Sage reference publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A-F -- v. 2. G-P -- v. 3 Q-Z, index.

2. surveys historical thought about time, including those ideas that emeged in ancient Greece, early christianity, the Italian Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution , and other periods

3. discusses the significance of time in writings of Isaac Asimov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Francesco Petrarch, Marcel Proust, H.G. Wells

4. contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists, anthroplogists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians

5. examines artist's portrayals of the fluidity of time, incuding paintings such as Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, Gustave Flaubert's book The Tempatation of Saint Anthony, Henryk Sienkiewickz's narrative Quo Vadis, and Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

6. provides a truly interdisciplinary approach, with discussions of Aztec, Buddhist, Christian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, HIndu, Isalmic, Navajo etc. and many other cultures' conception of time.

Explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers,theologians, and creative artists from ancient to the present as it surveys the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse man's speculation of time at present. Features: 1. covers the original and lasting insights of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, physicist Albert Einstein, philopher Friedrich Nietzche, theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and mystic giordano Bruno