Introducing Time

A Graphic Guide

By Craig Callender; Ralph Edney (Illustrator)
(Totem Books, Paperback, 9781848311206, 176pp.)

Publication Date: September 2010

Categories: Time

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Introducing Time traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincaré, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity.




About the Author

Craig Callander teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Ralph Edney is a well-established graphic artist whose other introducing titles include Relativity.

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