About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
- About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
- David Rooney
- Page: 288
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781324021957
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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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.
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires,
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The book is not in fact a history of civilization in 12 clocks. Each of the 12 chapters is organized around a broad theme — virtue, resistance,
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In this spectacularly far-reaching book, David Rooney narrates a history of timekeeping and civilization in twelve concise chapters. Over their course, we meet
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Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has
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This unusual book is part a collection of the thoughts and journeys of a clock-lover and historian, and part retelling of certain events in history,
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This unusual book is part a collection of the thoughts and journeys of a clock-lover and historian, and part retelling of certain events in history, told with a
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.
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