For more than 25,000 years, mankind has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes's lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a workable train timetable across the vast, Time Tamed - Nicholas Foulkes od authora Nicholas Foulkes a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Nicholas Foulkes |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
256 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Simon & Schuster |