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Figure 1.1: Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2005.16.318.38.
Figure 1.2: Source: Eric Lebrun.
Figure 1.3: Photo and diagram: Anthony Aveni.
Figure 2.1: Source: The British Museum.
Figure 2.2: Photo credit: Adam Frank.
Figure 2.3: Reproduced from J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy (London: Cassell & Co., 1894), 35.
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Figure 3.1: Source: Part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France collection.
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INDEX
Abri Blanchard
bone fragment arteact from
acceleration
cosmic
of everyday life
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
aether
luminiferous
wireless
agriculture
analytic thought and
cosmologies and
urban revolution and
air
Albrecht, Andreas
Alexandria, library of
Alfred, King of England
Allen, William
alpha decay
Alpher, Ralph
Altamira, cave paintings at
altitude
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
Americas, urban revolution in
Ammisaduqa, King
Amos & Andy
analogy
Anaximander
Andreessen, Marc
Andromeda
animals, domestication of
Anthropic Principle
antigravity
Antikythera mechanism
Apollo moon landing programme
Apple
Arcturus
Aristotle
cosmology of
physics of
on time
Armstrong, Karen
art
symbolic expression and
astronomical clocks
Antikythera mechanism as
astronomy
in Babylon
cosmology and
after fall of Rome
Galileo and
God’s lack of place in
in Greece
observational
Ptolemaic
Stonehenge and
astrophysics
At Day’s Close (Ekirch)
Athens
Atlas detector, in LHC
atom, primeval
atomic clocks
atomic weapons
atomism, atomists
atoms
Australia
Aveni, Anthony
Babylon
astronomy in
baby universes
Barbour, Julian
baryonic matter
Basex
BBC
Belgium
Bell, Daniel
Bell Laboratories
bells, bell towers
Bendix Home Appliances Corporation
Benedict, St., Rule of
Bentley, Richard
Bern
Berners-Lee, Tim
beta particles
Bethe, Hans
Bible
Big Bang theory
age of universe in
alternatives to
brane collision as mimicking
causality problem with
computer age and
of consciousness
and cosmic microwave radiation, see cosmic microwave background (CMB)
cosmology of
dominance of
entropy problem of
flatness problem with
hot
inflation theory and
magnetic monopole problem with,
moment of creation in
and nuclear cosmology
origin of term
particle physics and
prior to
quantum gravity needed for
shift away from
singularity at
Big Crunch
Big Science
Bikini Atoll
binary neutron stars
blackbody spectrum
black holes
block universe
bodies, materiality of
Bohr, Niels
bombers, long-range
bomb shelters
Book of the Heavens and of the World (Oresme)
Boscovich, Roger
BP (British Petroleum)
Brahe, Tycho
Brahma (Hindu god)
brain, hardwiring of human
brane collision
branes
smoothness of
brane-worlds
Brief History of Time, A (Hawking)
Brinkley, John R.
Bruno, Giordano
Buddhism
Buffalo Evening News
Bulk, the
bulletin board systems (BBSs)
Buridan, Jean
Byzantium
Cagney, Jimmy
calendars:
discrepancies between lunar and solar
electronic
Gregorian
Julian
lunar vs. solar
origin of
religion and
Campbell, Joseph
candles
carbon
carbon filament lamp (lightbulb)
Carpathia
Carroll, Sean
Cary, Wilma
Castle Bravo nuclear test
Castle Romeo nuclear test
Catholic Church
causality
causation, pure
cave paintings
celestial cartography
celestial time
cell phones, see mobile phones
Cepheid variables
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
change
chaos
Chen, Jennifer
China
Christianity
Big Bang and
cosmology and
of Newton
see also Catholic Church; Protestant Reformation
Christian Topography (Cosmas Indicopleustes)
Chrysippus
circadian rhythms
circles
cities
see also urban revolution Clausius, Rudolf
climate change
clock ambiguity
clocks
astronomical, see astronomical clocks
atomic
and determining longitude
for GPS
maritime
master
as metaphors
public
and relativity
spread of household and workplace
synchronization of
clockwork universe
coal
coal gas
cognitive modules
cognitive revolution
Cold War
compline
computers
Conrad, Frank
consciousness:
Big Bang of
origins of
constants, of standard model particle physics
constellations, seasonal shift in
Cook, James
Copernican principle
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Cosmas Indicopleustes
cosmic acceleration
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite
cosmic evolution
cosmic geometry
cosmic history, cyclic models of
cosmic microwave background (CMB)
cosmic perturbations
cosmic plasma
Cosmides, Leda
cosmological constant
cosmology
agriculture and
alternative
Aristotle’s
astronomy and
astrophysics in
Big Bang
branes and
building of
as collaborative creation
cosmic acceleration and
culture and
cyclic
days in
Eastern traditions of
Enlightenment
entropy in
five cosmological questions in
Greek
in Hesiod
inflation theory in
medieval
modern
myth and
narratives of
next great revolution in
nuclear
particle physics and
physics and
Platonic idealism and
quantum
rationality in
relativistic
religion and
Renaissance
scientific
steady-state
Stoic
string theory and
theoretical
thermodynamics and
time in
time-symmetric
Western traditions of
creation:
myths of
time cycles and
creation ex nihilo
Cronkite, Walter
Crowley, Ambrose
Crowley, Mary Owen
Crowley Ironworks
culture:
birth of
complexity of
digital technology and evolution of
evolution of
time and cosmology and
cuneiforms
Curtis, Heber
Cycles of Time (Penrose)
cyclic universe
ekpyrotic
relativistic
Dancing Universe, The (Gleiser)
Dark Ages
dark baryons
dark energy
dark matter
dark superenergy
Darwin, Charles
days
death
Defense Department, U.S.
Demeter
Democritus
De natura rerum (The Order of Things) (Bede)
Denmark
De revolutionibus orbium caelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestian Spheres) (Copernicus)
Descartes, René
de Sitter, Willem
deuterons
Dicke, Robert
Did Time Begin? (Frampton)
digital revolution
Dirac, Paul
disorder, maximum
Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard
Doppler shifts
Dordogne
Dreamtime
Early Bird
Earth
as centre of universe, see geocentric universe
evolution of
finite surface area of
as flat vs. sphere
location in cosmos of
mapping of
rotation of
Easter, drifting of
; Echo
economics:
time and
written language and
Eddington, Arthur
Eden
Edison, Thomas
Egypt
creation myth in
urban revolution in
Einstein, Albert
on Big Bang
eternal universe theorized by
model universes of
and static vs. moving universe
at the Swiss Patent Office
theory of relativity of
Ekirch, Roger
ekpyrosis
ekpyrotic cyclical model
ekpyrotic universe
electric appliances
electric charges
electricity
households with
in lighting
electric monopoles
electromagnetical time co-ordination devices, Einstein and
electromagnetic force
electromagnetic paradox
electromagnetic waves
electromagnetism
electrons
Eliade, Mircea
elliptical orbits
Elegant Universe, The
e-mail
Empires of Time (Aveni)
End of Time, The (Barbour)
energy
conservation of
energy resources, time and
enigmatic entanglement
Enlightenment
entropy
Big Bang and
cyclic models and
natural resources and
oscillating universe and
waste heat dissipated by
epicycles
equilibrium
equinoxes
Erfurt
Euclid
Eudoxus
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
evolution
Anaximander on
cosmic
cultural
entropy and
hominid
human
of human mind
and thermodynamics
and time
Facebook
factories
night shifts in
false vacuum
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), U.S.,
Ferguson, James
Fertile Crescent
Feynman, Richard
filar micrometer
fire
Fleming, Sandford
Fletcher, John
force
force bosons
Forms, Doctrine of
fossil gravity
fossil radiation
Frampton, Paul
French Revolution
Friedmann, Alexander
galaxies
clusters of
recession velocity of
redshifts in
spiral
Galileo Galilei
Galison, Peter
Gamow, George
gas lighting
General Electric
general relativity
General Time Convention of
Genesis
geocentric universe
geology
geometry
non-Euclidean
