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008			080714s2009 caum be a001 0 eng
020			_a9781412941648 (set)
035			_a(AEA)26659FDBFF4944ADB29117702915F68F
035			_a(OCoLC)235945796
050			_aBD 638 _b.En19 2009
245		0	_aEncyclopedia of time : _bscience, philosophy, theology, & culture / _cH. James Birx, editor.
260			_aLos Angeles : _bSage, _cc2009.
300			_a3 v. : _bill. _c29 cm.
500			_aA Sage reference publication.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_av. 1. A-F -- v. 2. G-P -- v. 3 Q-Z, index.
520			_a 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
520			_a 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
520			_a 4. contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists, anthroplogists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians
520			_a 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
520			_a 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.
520			_aExplores 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
650			_aTime _960194
700			_aBirx, H. James. _9104351
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