Book ID: CBB000111237

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (2000)

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Landes, David S. (Author)


Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Edition Details: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Physical Details: xxvi + 518 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., index
Language: English

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000111237/

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Authors & Contributors
Hashimoto, Takehiko
Avner Wishnitzer
Ferguson, Trish
Frumer, Yulia
Verhoeven, Gerrit
Thrift, N. J.
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Dædalus
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Stanford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Guilford Press
Concepts
Time measuring instruments
Clocks and Watches
Time measurement
Technology
Time
Everyday life
People
Harrison, John
Time Periods
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
20th century
18th century
Ancient
17th century
Places
Middle and Near East
United States
Japan
Mesopotamia
England
Edinburgh
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