Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #853257 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 502 pages

Synopsis
Explores the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses. This revised edition contains a new preface and discusses new findings on medieval and early-modern time keeping. Also new to this edition is discussion of contemporary high-tech uses of the watch as a mini-computer, cellula

Customer Reviews

Outstadting and timeless.
The best book about horology and time, ever written.
Í have read hundreds of books in the subject,
this is in all aspects, a fantastic book.
For the enthusiats, as for just a curious reader,
it's amazing.
Well written and very imformative.
Buy!

I'm biased, but this is good
A straightforward history of timekeeping and clocks written by a man who is clearly an expert in his field and loves what he's writing about. For me, being endlessly fascinated by the concept of time, this is thoroughly engaging. Full of early stories of clock makers and their inventions and useful on the way culture has changed to fit with timekeeping.
Needless to say, don't bother unless you like clocks.