time:

See S. V. Toulmin and J. Goodfield, Discovery of Time (1965); S. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Physical Time and Its Measurement
• Psychology of Time
• Philosophy and Science of Time
• Biological Time
• Bibliography

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