aroojalvi 's review for:

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens

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I have no idea what I just read. I’m not sure I’m the right audience for this book but the book is titled a very short introduction: the history of time. Which means the readers must be expecting to know the “introduction” of time. I have no doubt leofranc must be a great scholar and must have done a lot of research prior to writing this book but he assumes the reader already knows everything… the terminology and jargons used, the name of the months and everything is completely new and no! you cannot expect the reader to know this….. I don’t know anything about Jewish calendar or Egyptian calendar so where is this assumption coming from… an over complicated calculations of numbers and years just made my head spin… an absolute impossible read!!! My only reason for finishing this book was that it made me sleepy after a single page so I used it as a sleeping pill.