History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, Thomas Dunlap

History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, Thomas Dunlap

463 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. Detailing the clock's ...

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