Dictator clock : 5,000 years of telling time.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, Macmillan [1966]Description: viii, 166 pages illustrations, folded map, portrait 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 5000 years of telling time
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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