Time : the hands-on approach to science / by Andrew Haslam, David Glover

By: Haslam, Andrew [author]
Contributor(s): Glover, David
Language: English Series: Make it work!Publisher: Canada : Scholastic, c1996Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780590249157Subject(s): Time | Time -- Experiments | Time -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 529 Summary: "Why are there 365 days in a year and 24 hours in a day? How can you use the Sun, the stars and water to tell the time? Why is it midday in New York when it is five o'clock in the afternoon in London? This book investigates time, from calendars to pendulum clocks. It shows the different ways we can measure and record time, and even how we can speed it up or slow it down. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
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Includes glossary and index

"Why are there 365 days in a year and 24 hours in a day? How can you use the Sun, the stars and water to tell the time? Why is it midday in New York when it is five o'clock in the afternoon in London? This book investigates time, from calendars to pendulum clocks. It shows the different ways we can measure and record time, and even how we can speed it up or slow it down. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

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