Historia del tiempo

How has the concept of time evolved throughout our history? How different disciplines such as astronomy, physics, mathematics, biology or art have approached their study? What ways of measuring it have we used since Antiquity? How has the road to current measurement precision been since the first calendars?. How does the passage of time affect our biology and how is our body able to measure it? Time is permanently present in our lives, its passage affects us, we understand that we can and should measure it, that it is useful for us to organize our lives, that its passage sometimes seems to pass us by in a breath, and even it makes us cling to the vain idea that we would like it to never happen. From the remotest antiquity, man adapted his life, economic and social cycle to the everlasting rotation of the stars in the sky, and since then he has never wanted to modify that pattern of time that regulates his life. Humanity, represented by its best thinkers, may not have been able to unravel the most intimate essences of the concept of time, but it has been able to build the most sophisticated and marvelous instruments, capable of helping it measure it and thus regulate all of it. your social activity with absolute precision. Going through our history to discover ingenious devices, philosophical concepts, biological studies and even works of art, this book aims to accompany the reader on a walk through the extraordinary path that man has had to travel, throughout his existence, to reveal and apprehend some of the most important mysteries of the concept of time.