Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics

Dennis D. (United States Naval Observatory) McCarthy, P. Kenneth (University of Virginia) Seidelmann

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.

ISBN-13
9781107197282
ISBN-10
1107197287
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-10-18
Pages
400
Dimensions
182x255x19
Weight
946