The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by e

A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world.

Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government

In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, time's measureme

A major history of technology and Western conquest For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade,