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About Time - A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks (Hardcover) Loot Price: R687
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About Time - A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks (Hardcover): David Rooney

About Time - A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks (Hardcover)

David Rooney

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For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.

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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2021
Authors: David Rooney
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86793-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Time (chronology) > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Instruments & instrumentation engineering > Engineering measurement & calibration
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
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LSN: 0-393-86793-5
Barcode: 9780393867930

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