3 Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Biological Timekeeping: The Body’s Rhythms 4
6. 2 The Calendar: Different Drummers 24
7. 3 Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats 34
8. 4 The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature 48
9. 5 Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping 65
10. 6 Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum 83
11. 7 Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere 98
12. 8 The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles 123
13. Notes 139
14. References 142
15. Illustration Credits 146
16. Index 149