Even time does not exists of itself; but sense
reads out of things what happened long ago,
what presses now, and what shall follow after;
no man, we must admit, feels time itself,
disjoined from motion and quiet repose of things.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, I, 459-463.
La Misura del Tempo: prospettiva storica, Paolo Mascheretti, in G. Giuliani (a cura di) , Le grandezze fisiche e la loro misura, Pavia, 1998, 33-109. Table of Contents.
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