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