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Time's Pendulum : The Quest to Capture Time - From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
de Barnett, Jo Ellen
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0306457873
- ISBN 13
- 9780306457876
- Librería
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Better World Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- GRP17574224
- Título
- Time's Pendulum : The Quest to Capture Time - From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
- Autor
- Barnett, Jo Ellen
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 3
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0306457873
- ISBN 13
- 9780306457876
- Editorial
- Plenum Trade
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1998
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