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Praise for About Time

"Abundantly clever...[L]ovely and engaging...with myriad fascinations on every page."
- Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating...A valuable intellectual journey at a moment ripe for contemplation."
- Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal

"Insightful, globe-spanning."
- James Gleick, New York Review of Books

"People say time is money, but David Rooney knows better. In this information-packed swoop through history and into the future, he exposes time's many identities along with the hidden agendas of clocks. Time is knowledge. Time is power. Time is faith. Time is destiny."
- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

"Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself...I will never hear the pips, or ask 'what's the time?' in quite the same way again. A striking success."
- Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder

Praise for About Time

"Abundantly clever...[L]ovely and engaging...with myriad fascinations on every page."
- Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating...A valuable intellectual journey at a moment ripe for contemplation."
- Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal

"Insightful, globe-spanning."
- James Gleick, New York Review of Books

"People say time is money, but David Rooney knows better. In this information-packed swoop through history and into the future, he exposes time's many identities along with the hidden agendas of clocks. Time is knowledge. Time is power. Time is faith. Time is destiny."
- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

"Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself...I will never hear the pips, or ask 'what's the time?' in quite the same way again. A striking success."
- Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder

Über den Autor
David Rooney is a historian and curator specializing in transport, technology, and engineering, and the author of About Time and The Big Hop. For almost twenty years he worked at the London Science Museum, which houses the 1919 airplane first flown across the Atlantic. He lives in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781324050964
ISBN-10: 1324050969
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Rooney, David
Hersteller: W. W. Norton & Company
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 231 x 160 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: David Rooney
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 133366326

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