Arts & Culture

A Tenth of a Second: A History

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<h4>University of Chicago Press, January 2010</h4><h5>Jimena Canales</h5>

When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.

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