Mastery of time : a history of timekeeping, from sundial to the wristwatch : discoveries, inventions and advances in master watchmaking / Dominique Fléchon ; foreword by Franco Cologni.
Pubblicazione:
Paris : Flammarion, c2011.
Descrizione fisica:
455 p. : ill., ritr. ; 29 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Foreword. 1. Horology. a child of astronomy: from the origins to the late thirteenth century 2. From Clock to watch: fourtheenth to sixteenth century 3. Achieving precision: sixteenth to eighteenth century 4. During the industrial revolution (1790-1918) 5. Wristwatches: from the practicality of mechanics to the accuracy of quartz (1920-2000) 6. Precious and technical fine watchmaking: 2000 to the present. Appendixes
