A brief history of timekeeping the science of marking time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but--and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating writte...
| Main Author: | Orzel, Chad (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dallas, TX :
BenBella Books, Inc.,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A clock is a thing that ticks
- Sunrise
- The sun, the moon, and the stars
- "Give us our eleven days!"
- The apocalypse that wasn't
- Drips and drops
- Ticks and tocks
- Heavenly wanderers
- Celestial clockwork
- To the moon...
- Watch this
- Does anybody really know what time it is?
- The measure of space-time
- Quantum clocks
- Time and gravity
- Time enough for everyone
- The future of time.