By Julius Thomas Fraser
The end result of 30 years' paintings, this ebook examines classical and modern theories and conceptions of time. Fraser explores an expansive variety of subject matters: the origins of the universe, the background of timekeeping units, the biology of getting older and dying, human belief of time, dreaming vs waking fact, expectation and reminiscence, scientists' exploration of time within the actual global, and the ways that technological rhythms keep watch over our lives.
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The carving is the work of Jörg Syrlin the Elder, one of the many woodcarvings decorating the choir stalls of the Cathedral of Ulm. Courtesy, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich. Page 26 The desire of Pythagoras to find the rules of number stemmed from the same need as the cave artist's wish to record a magic dance on the cave wall: They both sought a shelter against the unpredictability of change. For the Pythagoreans it was not the Sorcerer but numbers and geometrical figures that performed the magic dance that could control the future.
It is believed that during the first three centuries of Christianity, the various forms of 2 Needham, "Time and Knowledge in China and the West," in The Voices of Time, ed. J. T. Fraser, 2d ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981), p. 92. 3 Gods, heavenly ones, hence our "diva" via the Latin divus. Page 21 Mithraism must have appeared to many Christians as possible alternatives to their new faith because they shared with Christianity the perspective of the cosmic struggle between light and darkness, good and evil, timelessness and time.
Basically, he is a desiring, suffering, death-conscious and hence, a time-conscious creature. Temporal experience, it seemed, more than any other aspect of existence is all-pervasive, intimate, and immediate.... In short, it appeared to me that time must and should occupy the center of man's intellectual and emotive interest. These thoughts turned out to be far Page 5 from novel. 1 They were indeed and remained so through two decades of intense time-related research, all the way to Time, the Familiar Stranger.