Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time - from sundials to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Plenum Trade, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306457873
  • 9780306457876
Other title:
  • Quest to capture time - from sundials to atomic clocks
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Time's pendulum.NLM classification:
  • 529.7 B261t
Contents:
Pt. 1. The time of day -- Introduction -- 1. The planetary basis of our day -- 2. The sundial and its temporary hours -- 3. The measurement of the night hours -- 4. The canonical hours -- 5. The selling of time -- 6. The mechanical clock : the product -- 7. The mechanical clock : the machine -- 8. The early machines -- 9. The pendulum -- 10. The longitude : where where become when -- 11. Of time and the railroad -- 12. The worldwide web of time -- 13. A watch on every wrist -- 14. New vibrations -- 15. The clock and charles darwin -- Part 2. The time of the earth -- 16. Of clocks and "clocks" -- 17. The circle and the (short) line -- 18. Discovering the "dark abyss" -- 19. The battle of the geologists and the physicists -- 20. The clock that worked -- 21. The past recaptured -- 22. Finding the time of humankind -- 23. The clock that came from outer space.
Review: "Jo Ellen Barnett takes us a step further in our perpetual quest to comprehend time. She bridges the gap between the mechanical clocks which record the fleeting moment as it passes, and the powerful radioactive "clocks" which have opened up to us the eons of the earth's history, by showing that both are based upon the counting of identical time segments." "Beginning with a historical look at clocks to tell the time of day, she discusses the impact of such inventions as the church bell, the pendulum, and the wristwatch on human culture, and explains how they've gradually transformed our perception not only of the world, but of time itself."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index.

Pt. 1. The time of day -- Introduction -- 1. The planetary basis of our day -- 2. The sundial and its temporary hours -- 3. The measurement of the night hours -- 4. The canonical hours -- 5. The selling of time -- 6. The mechanical clock : the product -- 7. The mechanical clock : the machine -- 8. The early machines -- 9. The pendulum -- 10. The longitude : where where become when -- 11. Of time and the railroad -- 12. The worldwide web of time -- 13. A watch on every wrist -- 14. New vibrations -- 15. The clock and charles darwin -- Part 2. The time of the earth -- 16. Of clocks and "clocks" -- 17. The circle and the (short) line -- 18. Discovering the "dark abyss" -- 19. The battle of the geologists and the physicists -- 20. The clock that worked -- 21. The past recaptured -- 22. Finding the time of humankind -- 23. The clock that came from outer space.

"Jo Ellen Barnett takes us a step further in our perpetual quest to comprehend time. She bridges the gap between the mechanical clocks which record the fleeting moment as it passes, and the powerful radioactive "clocks" which have opened up to us the eons of the earth's history, by showing that both are based upon the counting of identical time segments." "Beginning with a historical look at clocks to tell the time of day, she discusses the impact of such inventions as the church bell, the pendulum, and the wristwatch on human culture, and explains how they've gradually transformed our perception not only of the world, but of time itself."--Jacket.

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