About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks - Hardcover

Rooney, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393867935 ISBN 13: 9780393867930

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.About TimeRooney 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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David Rooney is a historian and curator specializing in transport, technology, and engineering, and the author of About Time and The Big Hop. For almost twenty years he worked at the London Science Museum, which houses the 1919 airplane first flown across the Atlantic. He lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393867935
• ISBN 13: 9780393867930
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271
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