The mechanical clock was one of the technologial advances that brought Western civilization to a position of world leadership. This book details how and why thi

The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by e

Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government

A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world.

In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, time's measureme