Revolution in Time

''Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World'', is an influential

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book by

David S. Landes David Saul Landes (April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of ''Bankers and Pashas'', '' Revolution in Time'', '' The Unbound Prometheus'', '' The Wealth and Poverty ...

. Its focus is on the

of the measure of

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

and its interdependence with the

evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

of the various civilisations over the centuries. The book was first published in 1983 by Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press (hardback , paperback ) and has been expanded in its second edition, published in 2000: , copyright 1983, 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The book deals with

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s and inventions that brought about modernization and technological developments in

timekeeping Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

in the whole world. It is considered to be one of the preeminent works on the history of

horology Horology (; related to Latin '; ; , interfix ''-o-'', and suffix ''-logy''), . is the study of the measurement of time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clo ...

. 1983 non-fiction books 2000 non-fiction books Horology Books about the history of science {{sci-hist-book-stub