Timescale: An Atlas of the Fourth Dimension
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1983 |
Collection
| Imprint | Chatto & Windus |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press |
| Copyright Holder | Nigel Calder |
| Printed by | Jolly & Barber Ltd |
| Cover Art by | M.C. Escher |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London |
| Copyright | 1983 |
| Pages / Font | 288 pages |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 530.1 1 QA699 |
| ISBN | 0-7011-3925-0 |
| Price | £12.95 net in UK only |
| Chapters | Overview
- Charts of Time
- The Physics of History
- Havoc in the Sky
- Radiometric Revolutions
- Fossil Compasses and Thermometers
- Museums versus Molecules
- How to be a Martian
- The Biology of History
- Causality is Not Destiny
- The Logarithmic Imagination
Maps
- 560 million years ago, till now: Kaleidoscopic World
- 550 million years ago: Bare Land, Teeming Sea
- 200 million years ago: The Dinosaur's Empire
- 18,000 years ago: Icebound Heritage
- 10,000 to 500 years ago: Genes and Travelers
- 5000 years ago: Emergent Cowboys
- 500 years ago (AD 1500): Discovered Earth
- Modern world: Electronics in English
Narrative and Timescale
Reference Index Overview
- Charts of Time
- The Physics of History
- Havoc in the Sky
- Radiometric Revolutions
- Fossil Compasses and Thermometers
- Museums versus Molecules
- How to be a Martian
- The Biology of History
- Causality is Not Destiny
- The Logarithmic Imagination
Maps
- 560 million years ago, till now: Kaleidoscopic World
- 550 million years ago: Bare Land, Teeming Sea
- 200 million years ago: The Dinosaur's Empire
- 18,000 years ago: Icebound Heritage
- 10,000 to 500 years ago: Genes and Travelers
- 5000 years ago: Emergent Cowboys
- 500 years ago (AD 1500): Discovered Earth
- Modern world: Electronics in English
Narrative and Timescale
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