ARC Review: A Brief History of Timekeeping

 A Brief History of Timekeeping is both history and science, and so is the kind of book I  gravitate to. 

Author Chad Orzel starts with a strong statement in his introduction – “we [humanity] are and always have been a species that builds clocks”. He then goes on to do a pretty good job justifying that statement with the rest of the book, which takes us from Neolithic megastructure timekeeping to today’s atomic clocks that keep the time on our cellphones current, and the (historically extremely accurate) quartz watches many of us wear on our wrists.

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