Time, calendars and clocks / Roy Worvill ; with illustrations by B.H. Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ladybird achievements booksPublisher: Loughborough [England] : Ladybird Books, 1973Description: 50 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0721403360
  • 9780721403366
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books 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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