Works by Jo Ellen Barnett
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- Administrator of the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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- New York, USA
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Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World by Jo Ellen Barnett
After reading a couple great books on time, time keeping, etc. I was a little skeptical when I first started this book but it was a very excellent read and the writing and ideas moved at a very high level throughout.
The first half was a fascinating read on timepiece innovations and the standardizations of time keeping. The second half concerned the dating of the earth through carbon dating and other technologies.
Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World by Jo Ellen Barnett
This is a readable, clear description of the history of timekeeping.
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