Julius Thomas Fraser - Time, the familiar stranger
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The culmination of 30 years work, this book examines classical and contemporary theories and conceptions of time. Fraser explores an expansive range of topics: the origins of the universe, the history of timekeeping devices, the biology of ageing and death, human perception of time, dreaming vs waking reality, expectation and memory, scientists exploration of time in the physical world, and the ways in which technological rhythms control our lives.
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Copyright 1987 by J. T. Fraser All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Linoterm Bembo Printed at Thomson-Shore and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fraser, J. T. (Julius Thomas), 1923 Time, the familiar stranger. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Time. I. Title BD638.F69 1987 529 87-10865 ISBN 0-87023-576-1
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The excerpt from C. Day Lewis, "Is it far to go" is from C. Day Lewis, Collected Poems 1954 and is reprinted by permission of the Executors of the Estate of C. Day Lewis, Jonathan Cape Ltd., Hogarth Press, and A. D. Peters & Co. Ltd.
Page v
For the Disciplined Dreamer a Book about Time
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank the Library of Manhattanville College for the stack privileges I have enjoyed for fifteen years; the Burndy Library in the History of Science for its ever-ready welcome; the Westport Public Library for its fine services; Dr. Richard Martin for being an editor who knows and cares; and my fellow timesmiths of the International Society for the Study of Time.
But above all my appreciation, as always, goes to my wife, Jane. Now that the patter of little feet is gone, she has been willing to live with the clatter of a typewriter and bear with love the elsewhere-directed habits of an idea processor.
I am also gratefulto whom it may concernto the gentle beauty of southern New England: against the greedy noise of a time-compact globe, the silent power of open passage.
J. T. F.
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Contents
A Chart and an Itinerary: An Introduction
3
1 Shall I Be Gone Long? The Experience and Idea of Time
7
The Discovery of Time: Once Over Lightly
8
Language: A Weapon against Passing
15
How to Live with the Knowledge of Time: Religions
17
Ideas about Time: Themes and Variations
23
2 For Ever and a Day The Reckoning of Time
45
The Stuff That Clocks are Made Of
45
Trillions of Cambridge Surprise Majors: The Scientific Measurement of Time
62
When Is Easter and Who are You? Calendars and Chronologies
75
Cosmic Birth and Death Judged in Terms of Human Time
95
3 To Whom There Belong? The Times of Life, Mind, and Society
106
Biotemporality: The Cyclic Order of Life
112
Biotemporality: The Aging Order of Life
130
The Origins of Life and of Biotemporality
136
Nootemporality: The Brain's Way of Minding the Body
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