Making Time

Making Time
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780226516448
ISBN-13 : 022651644X
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Book Synopsis Making Time by : Yulia Frumer

Download or read book Making Time written by Yulia Frumer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variable hours in a changing society -- Towers, pillows, and graphs: variation in clock design -- Astronomical time measurement and changing conceptions of time -- Geodesy, cartography, and time measurement -- Navigation and global time -- Time measurement on the ground in Kaga domain -- Clock-makers at the crossroads -- Western time and the rhetoric of enlightenment


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