Description More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and Making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time .
In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-Modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or televis.
Description More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and Making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time