The Nuts and Bolts of Space and Time Author:Percy Seymour, Dennis Bacon From the night sky to celestial globes, and from planetary clocks to watches, this lavishly-illustrated book tells of the history of astronomy, the first of all sciences. Astronomy was first used for calendar making, timekeeping, direction finding, celestial predictions and position fixing. The authors show how changes in our thinking about the ... more »solar system have been reflected in mechanical devices from antiquity to the 20th century, and our new, technological universe. Also covered are the discoveries about our solar system and how these have been incorporated into mechanical instruments.« less