The basic, universal concept of time is something that we, as a human race, grappled with for a long time. It is something that we experience, yet we are having a difficult time giving it a precise definition or fitting it into the big picture of the universe. For many millennia, we even struggled to come up with a universal way of recording it. Today, looking back throughout history, we can say that concept of time was and still is of interest to philosophers, physicists, and biologists, among other disciplines in science that also take interest in this topic.
Key Takeaways:
- Australia’s first inhabitants held a timeless view of nature that viewed the past and present as intimately connected.
- Ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome all had deities that embodied time.
- A complex elaborate clock was built in China in 1090, centuries before European clocks appeared.
“A row of 12 pits, dug by hunter-gatherers in what is now eastern Scotland, may have functioned as a lunar calendar.”
