![]() For much of human history, there was little concept of a linear progression of time. ![]() The book launched his career and made “time travel” a concept worth taking seriously. So new was the concept of travel through time that the phrase time travel first appeared in the English language only in 1914, in a reference to Wells's story. Wells published his first novel, “The Time Machine,” in 1895. Inspired by such temporal ferment, the young journalist H.G. ![]() Also, idiosyncratic local time regimes were being replaced by standard time zones, necessitated by the new railways and made possible by telegraphic communications. ![]() By then, findings in geology, evolutionary biology and archaeology had established that the Earth was far older than the long-accepted biblical time scale: Time was now deep. In scientific circles, the nature of time underwent special scrutiny in the late 19th century. It also saw an unprecedented questioning of customary assumptions in both the sciences and the arts. ![]() That period anticipated many of our present concerns, witnessing rapid technological innovation and extensive globalization. James Gleick’s exhilarating history of time travel begins by transporting us back to the future-to the fin de siècle bridging the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and. ![]()
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