The Story of Clocks and Calendars
Contributors: Giulio Maestro (Illustrator)
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: November 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780060589455
Subjects: Juvenile Astronomy; Science & Nature - Astronomy; History - Ancient; Technology - How Things Work/Are Made; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Juvenile literature; Children: Grades 3-4; History - General; Concepts - Time; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General; Science & Nature - General; Two thousand, A.D; Two thousand, A.D; Calendar; History
First sentence: FOR AS LONG AS ANYONE CAN REMEMBER, people thought of the year 2000 as "the future"-a time way ahead of us, when somehow things would be different and new.