About Time by David Rooney

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 horologists delight but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of timekeeping itself Richard Holmes The measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS. But while we have one eye on the time every day are we aware of the power clocks have given governments militar Paperback softback