Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution.

Museum of the History of Science

Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution

The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivaled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford. By virtue of the collection and the building, the Museum occupies a special position, both in the study of the history of science and in the development of western culture and collecting.

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