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Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution
Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution.
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Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution is an episode from Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University. Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted...
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Published Jul 2, 2012, 52:13 long, audio available.
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