Notions of Time
Notions of Time
Physicists and philosophers ponder the nature of time.
What is time? How do we measure it, organise it, live it? The exhibition explores the notion of time in all its facets, from science to literature.
Panel by panel:
- The notion of time and time passing
- Measuring time: sundials, water clocks, hourglasses
- Clocks, watches and alarm clocks
- Organising time: calendars, time zones, Greenwich Mean Time
- Time to grow old
- The masters of time and the geological time scale
- Literature and time, from Proust to the Très Riches Heures
Audience: all ages, from 10. Ideal for: a science festival, a philosophy or science project, an event in a library.
12 panels - Available for sale and hire.
Preview of the panels
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