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Informationen zum Autor Jan Bielecki is a Polish-Swedish illustrator and designer living in London. He mainly works with children's books and has illustrated fiction, picture books and non-fiction. Some of the topics he has covered include human anatomy, wrestling trolls, the scope of the Universe and slimy monsters. Emily Akkermans is Curator of Time at Royal Museums Greenwich. She manages the horology collection, which has close links to astronomy, navigation, science and society. After studying horology at The Vakschool in Schoonhoven, she specialised in the restoration of antique clocks during an apprenticeship in Breda, the Netherlands. She then completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Conservation and Restoration at the University of Antwerp. After graduating, Emily moved to London to work in metals conservation at the National Maritime Museum. She participated in a doctoral partnership between the National Maritime Museum and the University of Edinburgh, on a project that combined maritime history, horology, scientific instruments, and history of science and technology. Her PhD looked at how chronometers were used on board early nineteenth-century voyages of exploration and how they relate to other navigational practices. Klappentext It's time for a mind-blowing look at the history and mystery of time with the masters of timekeeping - travelling across the globe and even to the far reaches of space with Royal Observatory Greenwich's Curator of Time Vorwort It's time for a mind-blowing look at the history and mystery of time with the masters of timekeeping - travelling across the globe and even to the far reaches of space with Royal Observatory Greenwich's Curator of Time Zusammenfassung It's time for a mind-blowing look at the history and mystery of time with the masters of timekeeping - travelling across the globe and even to the far reaches of space with Royal Observatory Greenwich's Curator of Time Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: WHAT IS TIME? 2: TIME AND THE UNIVERSE 1: THE BEGINNING OF TIME 2: THE SOLAR SYSTEM 3: TIME IN SPACE 4: MOON AND THE STARS 3: NATURAL TIME 1: THE SHAPE OF TIME 2: DIVIDING THE YEAR 3: BUILDING BLOCKS OF TIME 4: BODY CLOCKS 4: MEASURING TIME 1: EARLY TIMEKEEPING 2: MECHANICAL TIME 3: DIVIDING THE DAY 4: TIME REDEFINED 5: COORDINATING TIME 1: WHAT'S THE TIME? 2: A SPEEDY WORLD 3: AGREEING TIME 4: TIME ZONES 6: WONDERS OF TIME 1: LIFETIMES 2: THE GOOD TIMES 3: THE WONDERS OF TIME 4: AROUND THE WORLD IN 7 CLOCKS 7: GLOSSARY 8: FIND OUT MORE 9: INDEX ...
