Victor, Pope, 190
Victorius, Bishop of Aquitaine, 191
Vieta (Viète, François), 133-4
Virgil, 58, 59, 62
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, 105
Vitruvius, 27, 50
Viviani, Vincenzio, 124
Voegelin, E., 53
Voltaire, 148
Vriezen, T., 51
Walcher of Malvern, 76-7
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 177
Walsingham, Francis, 119
watches, 17, 112-13, 143, 163-4, 166 see also balance spring
water: origin of all things, 37-8
water-dock, 82, 99, 101, 102: ancient, 17, 27, 39, 50, 65-6; Chinese, 89-90; Islamic, 78-9
Webster, H., 54
week: as calendrical unit, 32-3, 55, 68-70; first day, 69
Wells Cathedral dock, 101, 105
Werner, Johann, 139
Whitby, Synod of, 73
Whitehead, A.N., 172
Whorf, B.L., 8-9, 11
Wilkins, John, 135
Wilson, R.W., 175
wolf children, 13
Woolman, John, 159
Wordsworth, William, 147, 160
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world, end of, 55, 76, 80, 135-6, 184: Newton's belief, 82, 130 see also Millenarianism
world-soul, 61-2, 64
World War, First: effect of standard time, 166
writing: evolution, 22-3
Yazdgard III, 36
year: beginning of, 67, 84, 119; days in, 26, 66, 116, 187, 189; sacred (Maya), 93-4; unit, 15-17, 26, 28, 36, 168; vague (Maya), 93 see also sidereal year; tropical year
year of confusion, 66
Year of Grace, 119
Yeats, W.B., 179
Zarathustra, 33-6, 53, 60, 88
Zeno of Citium, 48
Zeno of Elea: paradoxes, 41, 79-80
Zodiac, 28, 32, 35, 60
Zoroastrianism see Zarathustra
Zurvan, 34-5, 39, 61, 87
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