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1日、1時間、1分の刻み方、暦の刻み方がどのように定まってきたか、何を基準に暦を刻んでいるか、そういった歴史的経緯をまとめた一冊。では、こうやって定まった時間の刻み方が科学にどのように影響を及ぼしたか、逆に科学がどのような影響を与えたか、については書かれていない。科学的な記述は天文観察をした、ということぐらい。これも観察をしたという歴史で、どんな観察をしたのかということは書かれていない。内容は悪くはないのだが、科学のレーベルにふさわしい選択ではないと言わざるを得ない。せめて解説で科学との関わり、なぜこれが選ばれたのかといったことが書いてあれば良かったのだが、それもない。
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原題：The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction
著者：Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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内容紹介
Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
著者について
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has a long-standing interest in calendars, chronologies, and the calculation of time.
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