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Timekeeping

Rodney Dale

Paperback (Oxford University Press, March 17, 1994)

Describes the changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring time

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Timekeeping

Rodney Dale

Hardcover (Oxford University Press, Feb. 25, 1993)

Timekeeping describes changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring the minutest fractions of a second.

TIMEKEEPING

Rodney (1933-). British Library Dale

Paperback (London : British Library, March 15, 1992)

Series; Discoveries and inventions. Physical description; 64 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Summary; Describes the changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring time. A history of the measurement of time, from earliest attempts to atomic clocks. The book covers changing concepts of time; emergence of the calendar; sundials; water clocks; sandglasses; calibrated candles; water escapements; and pendulum, mechanical, electrical, quartz and atomic clocks. Subjects; Time - History. Clocks and watches - History. Time. Clocks and watches - History - Juvenile literature. Time - Juvenile literature. Time measurements - History. Clocks and watches - History. Timepieces: horology. Clocks - History. Clocks & chronometers ; Science ; History of science. Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing. Juvenile Non-fiction / Science & Nature / General. Science / History. Genre; Illustrated.

Keeping time

Walter Buehr

Hardcover (Putnam, March 15, 1960)

The story of man's growing ability through the centuries to pinpoint himself precisely in time as well as in space is the story Walter Buehr tells in Keeping Time. Illustrated by the author.