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A Brief History of Timekeeping - The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks (Paperback)
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A Brief History of Timekeeping - The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks (Paperback)
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Loot Price R303
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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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