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9780674768000 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Discusses reasons why the clock was invented in Europe, traces the development of timekeeping technology, and describes how clocks and watches are made
Paperback:
9780674002821 | Rev sub edition (Belknap Pr, July 1, 2000), cover price $22.95
Product Description: The history of precision technology may seem a small, specialized subject, concerned with the development of such mundane, even banal objects as sun-dials, sand-glasses, clocks or rulers and other measuring instruments. Yet their development, as the author holds, has helped to condition how we relate to the natural world and is therefore a key aspect of cultural history...read more
Hardcover:
9780860783787 | Variorum, June 1, 1993, cover price $154.95 | About this edition: The history of precision technology may seem a small, specialized subject, concerned with the development of such mundane, even banal objects as sun-dials, sand-glasses, clocks or rulers and other measuring instruments.
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9780719801402 | Robert Hale Ltd, November 1, 1990, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This is widely acknowledged as being one of the most important and informative books ever to appear on the subject of horology.
Paperback:
9780674768024 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Discusses reasons why the clock was invented in Europe, traces the development of timekeeping technology, and describes how clocks and watches are made
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