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A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks - Softcover

Orzel, Chad

 
9780861542154: A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0861542150 ISBN 13: 9780861542154
Verlag: Oneworld Publications, 2022

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'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll

Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the first solstice markers at Newgrange to quartz crystal oscillating in your watch today. Science underpins time: measuring the movement of Sun, Earth and Moon, and unlocking the mysteries of quantum mechanics and relativity theory - the key to ultra-precise atomic clocks.

Yet time is also socially decided: the Gregorian calendar we use today came out of fraught politics, while the ancient Maya used sophisticated astronomical observations to produce a calendar system unlike any other. In his quirky and accessible style, Chad Orzel reveals the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chad Orzel is an associate professor at the department of physics and astronomy at Union College. He has written for Forbes, the Daily Mail and Physics World, and has spoken at numerous TED talks. His previous books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Niskayuna, New York.

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Verlag
Oneworld Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0861542150
ISBN 13 
9780861542154
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336
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