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Time's Pendulum (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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Time's Pendulum (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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A perfect balance of science, history, and sociology, Time's
Pendulum traces the important developments in humankind's epic
quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy, and how
our concept of time has changed with each new technological
breakthrough. Written in an easy-to-follow chronological format and
illustrated with entertaining anecdotes, author Jo Ellen Barnett's
history of timekeeping covers everything from the earliest sundials
and water clocks, to the pendulum and the more recent advances of
battery-powered, quartz-regulated wrist watches and the powerful
radioactive "clock," which loses only a few billionths of a second
per day, making it nearly ten billion times more accurate than the
pendulum clock. A tour of the discoveries and the inventors who
endeavored to chart and understand time, Time's Pendulum also
explains how each new advance gradually transformed our perception
of the world.
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