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

Landes, David S.

ISBN 10: 0674002822 / ISBN 13: 9780674002821

Published by Belknap Press, 2000

About this Item

Revised and Enlarged Edition. Mild shelf wear.

Seller Inventory # 228071

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Revised and Enlarged Edition
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674002822
• ISBN 13: 9780674002821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • S. Gross Collection

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.