Name: A Tenth of a Second: A History
Author: Canales, Jimena
ISBN: 9780226093185

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Comments: [From the library of noted scholar William E. Connolly.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modern

Canales, Jimena

Canales, Jimena is the author of 'A Tenth of a Second: A History', published 2010 under ISBN 9780226093185 and ISBN 0226093182.

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