(Children’s) Measuring up: Size

Time

ISBN 1 85561 886 9

Keywords Measurement, Time, Science, Children

These two further volumes in a series we have recently reviewed confirm its value. These comprehensive, yet concise, and clear (if often necessarily over‐simplified) accounts introduce children of the eight‐ to ten‐year‐old age range to concepts of basic science, and those concepts within their historical setting. What with recent popular works on the calendar and longitude, time has been in the literary news: John Harrison turns up in the Time volume, as he must, alongside attitudes to and systems of measurement of time,as well as accounts of the devices...