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The Story of Time (Hardcover)

by Umberto Eco (Author), Kristen Lippincott (Author), E.H. Gombrich (Author), et al (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd; First Edition & First Printing edition (1 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1858940729
  • ISBN-13: 978-1858940724
  • Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 25 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 552,346 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The press has been sniffy about the way the National Maritime Museum has "dumbed down" its galleries during the recent refurbishment--but there's no sign of such a strategy in this handsome companion to its international exhibition on Time. A perfect antidote to millennial tosh, The Story of Time captures the diverse ways in which cultures experience, measure, and resist the passage of time. Visually rich, its images reproduced to a very high quality, nonetheless, if this book were just a catalogue, the reader's pleasure would soon pall. Consider, for example, the picture of a Babylonian baked clay tablet on which are recorded New Moons for the years 103 to 100 BC. What better icon of futility could there be than this table of numbers, endlessly iterated? There is little else as drab as this: the exhibits--comprising everything from paintings to astronomical instruments to textiles to maps and documents, from places and times far too numerous to list here--are a credit to the skills and imaginations of the curators. But all these things, by definition, deal with something that can only be experienced, never shown. On this point the book, interspersed throughout with short, eclectic articles on all kinds of subjects related to time, perception, decay--the list goes on--wields a major advantage over its parent exhibition. Particularly refreshing is Joy Hendry's short account of the eclectic approach to time taken in Japan. In common with other peoples in the region, the Japanese lack a notion of time as a continuing entity. "Marked with events and periods but otherwise relatively homogenous", Japanese time is an agglomeration of local and overseas calendars and zodiacs--and not a clay tablet in sight. --Simon Ings

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Multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural, The Story of Time is published to mark the millennium and examine the very quality that gives the millennium its meaning.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very enjoyable and comprehensive read, 25 Nov 1999
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I have long looked for a book of this kind on the subject of time but few have ever come close to the range of content and fine quality of illustrations which this contains. I hope to be able to visit the show in London before the end of the year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the most comprehensive studies on time., 15 Nov 1999
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The Story of Time provides a fascinating overview of the subject and contains a feast of visual images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, as well as other international collections.

The book contains brief but highly readable mini-essays on subjects as diverse as Japanese Time and the end of time.

A great read!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant book - couldn't be bettered., 15 Nov 1999
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I loved it - I can't wait to see the exhibition
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