2002年9月1日

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計時編年史

我們對時間的理解取決於我們測量時間的方式

作者：威廉·J.H.安德魯斯

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