Time, calendars and clocks / Roy Worvill ; with illustrations by B.H. Robinson.
Material type:
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0721403360
- 9780721403366
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Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | Juvenile | TS542.5 .W67 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000053443 |
What is time? -- What is the time? -- Sundials and shadow clocks -- Stars and star-clocks -- The water clock -- The sand clock -- Fire clocks: candles and lamps -- The first mechanical clocks -- Weights, springs and pendulums -- A great clock-maker -- Navigation at sea -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- The first watches -- The long-case clock and the wall clock -- More than time -- Quartz crystal and atomic clocks -- Clock time and sundial time -- Time-zones and the International Date Line -- Earth, sun and seasons -- The sun calendar and Ancient Egypt -- The moon calendar -- The calendar of Julius Caesar -- The calendar of Pope Gregory -- Our world and the Great Year.
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A non-fiction book on time for juveniles, age 9-12
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