"A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of The Discovery of Ti

In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reade

In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".

Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.