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Time in History: Views of Time From Prehistory to the Present Day

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by G. J. Whitrow


  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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  working day, 108, 113

  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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