Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Revised and Enlarged Edition - Softcover

Landes, David S.

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ISBN 10: 0674002822 ISBN 13: 9780674002821

Verlag: Belknap Press, 2000

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This book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks is expanded here with a new preface and updated passages exploring findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or TV screen.

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David S. Landes was Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.

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More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time. In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or television screen. While commenting on the latest research, Landes never loses his focus on the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses, questions that go beyond history and involve philosophers and, possibly, theologians and literary folk as well.

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• Verlag: Belknap Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674002822
• ISBN 13: 9780674002821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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