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Most Used Titles in Class QB140 -- QB237

Rank TITLE Lib Uses Year
1 My first book of time / Claire Llewellyn WCU 37 1992
2 Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time ASU 32 1995
3 Empires of time : calendars, clocks, and cultures / Anthony F. Aveni WCU 28 1989
4 Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time WCU 19 1995
5 Cosmic time travel : a scientific odyssey / Barry Parker drawings by Lori Scoffield UNCA 18 1991
6 On Stonehenge / Fred Hoyle UNCA 15 1977
7 The riddle of time, by Thelma Harrington Bell and Corydon Bell. Illustrated by Corydon Bell WCU 13 1963
8 The illustrated longitude / Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes ASU 13 1998
9 What is time? [by] G. J. Whitrow ASU 12 1972
10 This book is about time / Marilyn Burns Illustrated by Martha Weston WCU 11 1978
11 Sundials, how to know, use, and make them, by R. Newton Mayall and Margaret W. Mayall WCU 11 1973
12 Sun, earth, time, and man WCU 10 1960
13 Greek and Roman sundials / Sharon L. Gibbs WCU 10 1976
14 The idea of time / Charles Hepworth Holland UNCA 8 1999
15 Sundials : their theory and construction / Albert E. Waugh ASU 8 1973
16 Practical astronomy : lectures on time, place, and space / David H. DeVorkin illustrations by St WCU 8 1986
17 Happy times WCU 8 1995
18 Empires of time : calendars, clocks, and cultures / Anthony F. Aveni ASU 8 1989
19 Computational spherical astronomy / Laurence G. Taff ASU 8 1981
20 The illustrated longitude / Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes UNCA 7 1998
21 Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett ASU 7 1998
22 The nature of time, edited by T. Gold, with the assistance of D. L. Schumacher UNCA 7 1967
23 Sundials : their theory and construction / Albert E. Waugh WCU 7 1973
24 Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick UNCA 7 1999
25 Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time / Peter Galison WCU 7 2003
26 The genesis and evolution of time : a critique of interpretation in physics / J.T. Fraser UNCA 6 1982
27 Time wars : the primary conflict in human history / Jeremy Rifkin UNCA 6 1987
28 Spherical astronomy / Robin M. Green ASU 6 1985
29 On time : an investigation into scientific knowledge and human experience / Michael Shallis UNCA 6 1983
30 Observational astronomy / D. Scott Birney UNCA 6 1991
31 Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton UNCA 6 2004
32 From sundials to atomic clocks : understanding time and frequency / by James Jespersen and Jane Fi UNCA 6 1977
33 Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick ASU 5 1999
34 Elements of mathematical astronomy, with a brief exposition of relativity. Rev. by Cameron Dinwood UNCA 5 1962
35 Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time / Peter Galison UNCA 5 2003
36 The arrow of time : a voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery / Peter Coveney and UNCA 4 1991
37 The clock we live on. Illustrated with diagrs. by John Bradford ASU 4 1965
38 The Enigma of time / compiled and introduced by P.T. Landsberg WCU 4 1982
39 Positional astronomy and astro-navigation, made easy : a new approach using the pocket calculator ASU 4 1978
40 Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton WCU 4 2004
41 Eclipse / David and Carol Allen WCU 4 1987
42 Time & clocks for the space age / James Jespersen & Jane Fitz-Randolph WCU 3 1979
43 Time's arrows : scientific attitudes toward time / Richard Morris UNCA 3 1984
44 The study of time proceedings of the first [-second] conference of the International Society for ASU 3 1972
45 The measurement of time : time, frequency, and the atomic clock / Claude Audoin, Bernard Guinot UNCA 3 2001
46 Time journeys : a search for cosmic destiny and meaning / Paul Halpern UNCA 3 1990
47 The river of time / Igor D. Novikov translated from the Russian by Vitaly Kisin UNCA 3 1998
48 Sun, earth, time, and man ASU 3 1960
49 Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude / Derek Howse WCU 3 1980
50 Empires of time : calendars, clocks, and cultures / Anthony Aveni UNCA 3 2002
51 A sideways look at time / Jay Griffiths UNCA 3 2002
52 Walking zero : discovering cosmic space and time along the Prime Meridian / Chet Raymo ASU 2 2006
53 The sky's the limit : stories of discovery by women and girls / Catherine Thimmesh illustrated b UNCA 2 2002
54 Time and its measurements from the stone age to the nuclear age UNCA 2 1958
55 Time lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time / Clark Blaise UNCA 2 2000
56 Time and mind : interdisciplinary issues / edited by J.T. Fraser WCU 2 1989
57 The natural philosophy of time UNCA 2 1961
58 Time in science and philosophy an international study of some current problems. Edited by Jiří WCU 2 1971
59 Keeping watch : a history of American time / Michael O'Malley UNCA 2 1991
60 Time lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time / Clark Blaise WCU 1 2000
61 The elements of practical astronomy, by W. W. Campbell ASU 1 1899
62 The theory of time WCU 1 1974
63 The illustrated longitude / Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes WCU 1 1998
64 Time's arrows : scientific attitudes toward time / Richard Morris WCU 1 1984
65 Timescale : an atlas of the fourth dimension / Nigel Calder ASU 1 1983
66 Time / edited by Katinka Ridderbos UNCA 1 2002
67 The study of time proceedings of the first conference of the International Society for the Study WCU 1 1972
68 The little book of time / Klaus Mainzer translated by Josef Eisinger UNCA 1 2002
69 Practical astronomy ASU 1 1948
70 Positional astronomy and astro-navigation, made easy : a new approach using the pocket calculator WCU 1 1978
71 Patterning of time / by Leonard W. Doob WCU 1 1971
72 Man and the stars / Hanbury Brown ASU 1 1978
73 Greenwich time and the longitude / Derek Howse WCU 1 1997
74 Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude / Derek Howse UNCA 1 1980
75 Contribution of space geodesy to geodynamics : Earth dynamics / David E. Smith, Donald L. Turcotte ASU 1 1993
76 Canon of eclipses. Canon der Finsternisse. Translated by Owen Gingerich. With a pref. by Donald H WCU 1 1962
77 The genesis and evolution of time : a critique of interpretation in physics / J.T. Fraser WCU 1982
78 Time wars : the primary conflict in human history / Jeremy Rifkin WCU 1987
79 The ever-changing sky : a guide to the celestial sphere / James B. Kaler UNCA 1996
80 The study of time proceedings of the first [-second] conference of the International Society for ASU 1972
81 The river of time / Igor D. Novikov translated from the Russian by Vitaly Kisin WCU 1998
82 Timescale : an atlas of the fourth dimension / Nigel Calder UNCA 1983
83 The amateur astronomer's introduction to the celestial sphere / William Millar ASU 2006
84 Time : a bibliographic guide / Samuel L. Macey UNCA 1991
85 Time lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time / Clark Blaise ASU 2000
86 The ever-changing sky : a guide to the celestial sphere / James B. Kaler ASU 1996
87 Selling the true time : nineteenth-century timekeeping in America / Ian R. Bartky ASU 2000
88 Selling the true time : nineteenth-century timekeeping in America / Ian R. Bartky WCU 2000
89 Sundials : history, theory, and practice / René R. J. Rohr with a foreword by Henri Michel tr ASU 1996
90 Statistical challenges in modern astronomy / Eric D. Feigelson, G. Jogesh Babu, editors ASU 1992
91 Shaping the day : a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 / Paul Glennie and Nigel ASU 2009
92 Standard time in the United States a history of standard and daylight saving time in the United S WCU 1970
93 Picosecond phenomena : proceedings of the first International Conference on Picosecond Phenomena, ASU 1978
94 On Stonehenge / Fred Hoyle ASU 1977
95 One time fits all : the campaigns for global uniformity / Ian R. Bartky ASU 2007
96 Observational astronomy / D. Scott Birney WCU 1991
97 Keeping watch : a history of American time / Michael O'Malley ASU 1990
98 In search of time : the science of a curious dimension / Dan Falk ASU 2008
99 Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton ASU 2004
100 Encyclopedia of time / edited by Samuel L. Macey UNCA 1994
101 Elements of mathematical astronomy, with a brief exposition of relativity. Rev. by Cameron Dinwood WCU 1962
102 Eclipse / David and Carol Allen UNCA 1987
103 Dividing the circle : the development of critical angular measurement in astronomy 1500-1850 / All WCU 1995
104 Durations : the encyclopedia of how long things take / Stuart A. Sandow, with Chrissie Bamber and UNCA 1977
105 Clocks for the ages how scientists date the past WCU 1971
106 Bede, The reckoning of time / translated, with introduction, notes and commentary by Faith Wallis WCU 1999
107 Apollo's fire : a day on Earth in nature and imagination / Michael Sims ASU 2007
108 Al-Kāshī's geographical table / E.S. Kennedy and M.-H. Kennedy ASU 1987


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