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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

by David Rooney

A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. 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 obs

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780393867930