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Famous Timepieces
Triberg, Germany: The world's largest cuckoo clock, hand-made, features a fully-functioning 330 lb. cuckoo
Mecca, Saudi Arabia: The Makkah Royal Clock is the world's highest, rising 1,500 ft. high
Venice, Italy: St. Mark's Clock Tower, working since 1499. Statues of the Three Magi encircle the Madonna and Child twice a year
Surat, India: The world's largest floral clock, 79 ft. in diameter. The clock hands weigh over 1,700 lbs. each
Calendars
The Structure and Mathematics of the Principal Calendars of the Western World
by
Martin Kapel
Call Number: 2nd Floor CE11 .K36 2006
ISBN: 9780773459533
Calendars and years : astronomy and time in the Ancient Near East
by
John Steele
Call Number: CE6 .C343 2007
Anno Domini : the origins of the Christian era
Call Number: CE6 .D42 2000
ISBN: 2503510507
Calendar : humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and accurate year
by
David Duncan
Call Number: CE6 .D86 1998
The calendar : the 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing ten days
by
Duncan, David Ewing
Call Number: CE6 .D865 1998
ISBN: 9781857027211
Mapping time : the calendar and its history
by
Edward Richards
Call Number: CE11 .R52 1998
Greek and Roman calendars : constructions of time in the classical world
by
Robert Hannah
Call Number: CE42 .H36 2005
Empires of time : calendars, clocks, and cultures
by
Anthony Aveni
Call Number: QB209 .A87 2002
Clocks
Heavenly clockwork : the great astronomical clocks of medieval China
by
Joseph Needham
Call Number: QB107 .N4 1986
The pulse of time : Galileo Galilei, the determination of longitude, and the pendulum clock
Call Number: QB225 .B43 1991
ISBN: 8822238567
Clocks and culture, 1300-1700
Call Number: TS542 .C46 1967
Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world
by
David Landes
Call Number: TS542 .L42 2000
The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism, its construction, regulation, and repair
by
Goodrich, Ward L.
Call Number: TS545 .G6 1950
2d. ed.
Accurate clock pendulums
by
Robert Matthys
Call Number: TS548 .M38 2004
Finding longitude : how clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem
Call Number: VK567 .D86 2014
ISBN: 9780007525867
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