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- catalog abstract ""More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time. In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or television screen. While commenting on the latest research, Landes never loses his focus on the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses, questions that go beyond history and involve philosophers and, possibly, theologians and literary folk as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11589764.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time. In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or television screen. While commenting on the latest research, Landes never loses his focus on the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses, questions that go beyond history and involve philosophers and, possibly, theologians and literary folk as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. Finding Time -- 1. A Magnificent Dead End -- 2. Why Are the Memorials Late? -- 3. Are You Sleeping, Brother John? -- 4. The Greatest Necessity for Every Rank of Men -- II. Keeping Time -- 5. My Time Is My Time -- 6. Of Toys and Ornaments and Serious Things -- 7. My Time Is Your Time. -- 8. Approaching the Asymptote -- 9. The Man Who Stayed to Dinner -- 10. The French Connection -- 11. Fame Is the Spur -- III. Making Time -- 12. Clocks in the Belfry. -- 13. The Good Old Days That Never Were -- 14. The Ups and Downs of International Competition -- 15. Multum in Parvo. -- 16. Notwithstanding the Barrenness of the Soil. -- 17. Nor Could He Compete with Us -- 18. Ah, But He Could! -- 19. Not One in Fifty Thousand -- 20. Who Killed Cock Robin? -- 21. The Quartz Revolution -- App. A. Escapements.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 518 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674002822".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "681.1/13/09 21".
- catalog subject "Clocks and watches History.".
- catalog subject "Horology History.".
- catalog subject "TS542 .L24 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Finding Time -- 1. A Magnificent Dead End -- 2. Why Are the Memorials Late? -- 3. Are You Sleeping, Brother John? -- 4. The Greatest Necessity for Every Rank of Men -- II. Keeping Time -- 5. My Time Is My Time -- 6. Of Toys and Ornaments and Serious Things -- 7. My Time Is Your Time. -- 8. Approaching the Asymptote -- 9. The Man Who Stayed to Dinner -- 10. The French Connection -- 11. Fame Is the Spur -- III. Making Time -- 12. Clocks in the Belfry. -- 13. The Good Old Days That Never Were -- 14. The Ups and Downs of International Competition -- 15. Multum in Parvo. -- 16. Notwithstanding the Barrenness of the Soil. -- 17. Nor Could He Compete with Us -- 18. Ah, But He Could! -- 19. Not One in Fifty Thousand -- 20. Who Killed Cock Robin? -- 21. The Quartz Revolution -- App. A. Escapements.".
- catalog title "Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world / David S. Landes.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".