2002年9月1日

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计时编年史

我们对时间的理解取决于我们测量时间的方式

作者：威廉·J.H.安德鲁斯

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William J. H. Andrewes is a museum consultant and maker of precision sundials (www.hodinkee.com/features/will-andrewes-feature). Specializing in the field of time measurement for four decades, he has worked at Eton College, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, The Time Museum and Harvard University. He organized the Longitude Symposium at Harvard (1993), edited The Quest for Longitude, and was co-author with Dava Sobel of The Illustrated Longitude. For his contributions to horology, he was awarded the Harrison Gold Medal in 2007.

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大众科学 Magazine Vol 287 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “A Chronicle of Timekeeping” in 大众科学 Magazine Vol. 287 No. 3 ()
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