A tenth of a second : a history / Jimena Canales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canales, Jimena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time measurements.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies-telegr

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Reaction Time and the Personal Equation

3. The Measure of All Thoughts

4. Moments of Contact

5. Captured by Cinematography

6. Stabilizing Physics

7. Reacting to Relativity

8. Conclusion

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612504167

9781282504165

1282504169

9780226093208

0226093204

OCLC:

609855188