Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time - From Sundials to Atomic Clocks - Hardcover

Barnett, Jo Ellen

 
9780306457876: Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time - From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0306457873 ISBN 13: 9780306457876
Verlag: Basic Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Jo Ellen Barnett takes us a step further in our perpetual quest to comprehend time. She bridges the gap between the mechanical clocks which record the fleeting moment as it passes, and the powerful radioactive "clocks" which have opened up to us the eons of the earth's history, by showing that both are based upon the counting of identical time segments. Beginning with a historical look at clocks to tell the time of day, she discusses the impact of such inventions as the church bell, the pendulum, and the wristwatch on human culture, and explains how they've gradually transformed our perception not only of the world, but of time itself.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0306457873
ISBN 13 
9780306457876
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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