Dictator clock : 5,000 years of telling time.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, Macmillan [1966]Description: viii, 166 pages illustrations, folded map, portrait 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • 5000 years of telling time
Subject(s): Summary: Discusses the development, over thousands of years, of the sundial, water clock, the sand clock or hour glass, thefire clock and finally the accurate machine we use today.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .B8 1966 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000033080

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162).

Discusses the development, over thousands of years, of the sundial, water clock, the sand clock or hour glass, thefire clock and finally the accurate machine we use today.

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History of timekeeping in society

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