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    National Geographic Children's Books, Hardcover, 2000
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On Time


Book Description
Award-winning science writer Gloria Skurzynski takes young readers on a fascinating tour through the history of time measurement. She shows how humans learned to recognize time and measure it in smaller and smaller units from Stonehenge, which marked the equinoxes; to Egyptian obelisks, which measured the hours; to modern-day atomic clocks, which split seconds into minuscule fractions.
Book Information
PublisherNational Geographic Children's Books
BindingHardcover (2 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages48
ISBN-100792275039
ISBN-13978-0792275039
Publication Date04/01/2000
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About Gloria Skurzynski (Author) : Gloria Skurzynski is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Gloria Skurzynski include Mysteries in Our National Parks: Escape From Fear: A Myste... more
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