Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 by Stuart Sherman

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Stuart Sherman

342 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovati...

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