This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the physics of time and time measurement, from an historical perspective
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A tour of clocks throughout the centuries—from the sandglass to the telomere—to reveal the physical, biological, and soc
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Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South
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