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Time's pendulum : from sundials to atomic clocks, the fascinating history of timekeeping and how our discoveries changed the world

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Provides information and anecdotes about the history of time, examining the planetary basis of Earth's days and how it relates to the development of clocks; and looks at ideas about the past--and the nature of time itself--that people have come up with throughout the ages.