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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest...
2) Time
Author
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce basic mathematical concepts in time. Includes online content that contains weblinks, audio and video clips, activities, and other features.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
What would life be like with no clocks and no calendars? How would you know when to get up in the morning? Long, long ago, all people could do was watch the sun and moon and try to figure things out. Eventually, they made simple clocks like sundials.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Bored at Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead and remarked to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology.
10) The clock
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A history of time measurement, including a short biography of John Harrison, inventor of the chronometric clock, and the effect of the clock on the Industrial Revolution.
15) Anno's sundial
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Explains how the earth's movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have been used to tell time. Includes illustrationsthat pop up or fold out to demonstrate how sundialswork.
16) Time
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the time, the science behind measuring time, and the different systems and devices used to measure time"--Provided by publisher.
17) Tick-tock
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the concept of time and explains how it is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.