History of the Hour
Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
455 pages· 1996· ISBN 9780226155104
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This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
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