About Time
''An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time'' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps
''Not merely an horologist''s delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself'' Richard Holmes
The measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS....
''An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time'' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps
''Not merely an horologist''s delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself'' Richard Holmes
The measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS....
