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Author Skurzynski, Gloria.

Title On time : from seasons to split seconds / by Gloria Skurzynski.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J529 SKURZYNS    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Children's Department  J529 SKURZYNSKI    Check Shelf
Description 41 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Seasons -- Years, months, and weeks -- Hours -- Calendars -- Points in time -- Heavenly bodies -- Mechanical clocks -- Minutes and seconds -- Navigation -- Standard time -- Split seconds -- Space-time.
Summary Examines the ways humans have measured time throughout history and discusses the various units that are used to keep track of it.
Subject Time measurements -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Time measurements.
ISBN 0792275039
9780792275039
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