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100	1		_aRooney, David, _d1974- _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009148106 _97698
245	1	0	_aAbout time : _ba history of civilization in twelve clocks / _cDavid Rooney.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW. W. Norton and Company, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_aix, 271 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aFirst published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 -- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE -- Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār Bakr, 1206 -- Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338 -- Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611 -- Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35 -- Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833 -- Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865 -- Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6 -- Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913 -- Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935 -- War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972 -- Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.
520			_a"A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aClocks and watches _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101137 _97530
650		0	_aHorology _xHistory.
650		0	_aTime _xSocial aspects _xHistory.
650		0	_aCivilization. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026423 _96437
775	0	8	_iReproduction of (manifestation): _aRooney, David, 1974- _tAbout time _dLondon : Viking, 2021 _z9780241370490
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