Revolution in Time. Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. Revised and Enlarged Edition

Landes, David S.

ISBN 10: 0674002822 / ISBN 13: 9780674002821

Verlag: Cambridge US - The Belknap of Harvard University Press [2000], 2000

Beschreibung

OKart., xxiii, 518 Seiten, 8°, nahezu unbeschädigt, sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A19026

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Revolution in Time. Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. Revised and Enlarged Edition
• Verlag: Cambridge US - The Belknap of Harvard University Press [2000]
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674002822
• ISBN-13: 9780674002821
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.