Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

Landes, David S.

ISBN 10: 0670889679 / ISBN 13: 9780670889679

Editore: Viking, 2000

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• Titolo: Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0670889679
• ISBN 13: 9780670889679
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

The mechanical clock was one of the technological advances that brought Western civilisation to a position of world leadership. Landes details how and why this breakthrough occured through a historical journey that takes in the 14th century mechanical revolution, Elizabeth I's finger watch, the dazzling success of Swiss watchmakers, fakes and smuggling, the quartz revolution and the radically important marine chronometers for calculating longitude.

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David S. Landes is professor emeritus of history and economics at Harvard University. He is the author of the bestselling THE UNBOUND PROMETHEUS and THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS. His next book, DYNASTIES, will be published by Viking in 2001.