Time travel a history
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophi...
| Main Author: | Gleick, James (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine
- Fin de siècle
- Philosophers and pulps
- Ancient lights
- By your bootstraps
- Arrow of time
- A river, a path, a maze
- Eternity
- Buried time
- Backward
- The paradoxes
- What is time?
- Our only boat
- Presently.