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

Landes, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002822 ISBN 13: 9780674002821

Verlag: Belknap Press, 2000

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Book by Landes David S

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Críticas

[Landes] has an eye for the odd, amusing detail and manages to convey a great enthusiasm for his subject...His book contains a wealth of piquant information that left me musing when I closed it. -- Tracy Kidder "New York Times Book Review"

Reseña del editor

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, that involve philosophers and possibly, theologians and literary folk as well.

Details zur Ausgabe

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