We witness our predecessors tracking herds, watching the shifting sky, and noting nature's cycles of growth and blooming. We marvel in the dark at Stonehenge, observe the solstice sun inching along a Native American calendar, and stand in awe of Su Sung's remarkable water clock. We rock on-deck of an English vessel to gauge the first highly accurate shipboard clock, and search for clues to regulate our circadian rhythms. We entertain the reverse flow of subatomic time, and ponder Galileo's imaginative designs and Einstein's grand revelations. We get acquainted with Julius Caesar, Ptolemy, Newton, and Stephen Hawking, plus many more whose labor, fighting, and foolishness shaped the story of time. With over 200 vivid illustrations and instructive fact boxes, The Mystery of Time follows humanity's quest to conquer time: measuring it, using it, standardizing it, outsmarting it, and eventually comprehending it.

National Geographic, 2000

Hardcover with slight rips on the edge of dust jacket.

ISBN: 9780792279105