Of Clocks and Time 9781681740966, 9781681740324, 9781681742243

Stop the Clocks!: Time And Narrative In Cinema 9780755693863, 9781848851757

The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinat

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The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time 9780228009634

The remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair – and how standard time almost didn’t happen. Until the

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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps Empires of Time 0393020010, 2002155114, 0393326047, 9780393243864

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Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science 9780198885191, 9780198885177, 0198885199

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Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science 9780198885177, 0198885172

Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping te

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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire 9780226257860, 9780226257723, 022625772X, 022625786X

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own

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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks 9780393867947, 9780393867930, 0393867943

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the

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Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps: empires of time [1. ed] 0393020010, 0393326047, 9780393243864, 9780393020014, 9780393326048

Synchrony -- Coal and chaos -- The electric worldmap -- Poincaré's maps -- Einstein's clocks -- The place of t

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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire 9780226257860

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own

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Clocks and Clouds: The Architecture of Escher GuneWardena 9783035611724, 9783035611717

Architecture Inspired by Art Escher GuneWardena, founded in Los Angeles in 1996, reached international recognition thr

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