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Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time--From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
by Jo Ellen Barnett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- TIME. Good Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0306457873
- ISBN 13
- 9780306457876
- Seller
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El Paso, Texas, United States
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About This Item
1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. TIME. Good Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ISBN 10: 0306457873. Ex-library discard with markings. Dust jacket is cover in plastic; however, a small rectangle has been cut out of the front cover above the title. See photo. Binding is very tight and except for library markings the pages are clean. Index Synopsis: Jo Ellen Barnett takes us a step further in our perpetual quest to comprehend time. She bridges the gap between the mechanical clocks which record the fleeting moment as it passes, and the powerful radioactive "clocks" which have opened up to us the eons of the earth's history, by showing that both are based upon the counting of identical time segments. Beginning with a historical look at clocks to tell the time of day, she discusses the impact of such inventions as the church bell, the pendulum, and the wristwatch on human culture, and explains how they've gradually transformed our perception not only of the world, but of time itself.
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- Seller
- The Sun Also Rises (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 001428
- Title
- Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time--From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
- Author
- Jo Ellen Barnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - TIME. Good Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0306457873
- ISBN 13
- 9780306457876
- Publisher
- Plenum Trade
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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I have been selling on the nternet since 1997. As the store name indicates, I am a Hemingway fan, but I also have interest in the Old West, Christian books, classic,
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- Jacket
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- Fair
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