Mastery of Time

Discoveries, Inventions, and Advances in Horology

Dominique Flechon

10/2011
FLÉCHON, DOMINIQUE.

The Mastery of Time. A History of Timekeeping, from the Sundial to the Wristwatch: Discoveries, Inventions, and Adances in Master Watchmaking. Forew. b Franco Cologni. Paris 2011. 4to. 455 S.mit 400meist farb., teils ganzseit. Abb., Bibliographie, Glossar, Indices, Ppbd.

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This book recounts the history of telling time from the dawn of civilization to the present. More than a simple chronology, it explores the technical resources used to measure time whether solar, hydraulic, mechanical, or electrical just as it explains the key factors behind the major breakthroughs in the science of horology. The patient, long-term conquest of accuracy has been the result of successive advances from sundial to wristwatch up to the recent exploits of the heirs to this age-old quest, namely master horologists of the twenty-first century.

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