Time Travel  -  James Gleick

A History

KORTE INHOUD

The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea ...
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2016 Uitgever: Pantheon 333 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0375715207 ISBN-13: 9780375715204