History of the Hour Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

Name: History of the Hour Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
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ISBN: 9780226155111

ISBN-10: 0226155110

ISBN-13: 9780226155111

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, Thomas Dunlap

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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 effects on social activity, he presents a vivid picture of a society regulated by the precise measurement of identical hours. "In tracing the evolution of time consciousness with scholarship and skill . . . Dohrn-van Rossum evokes the many ways that the small moments of life have come to be reckoned with the passage of time."--Dava Sobel, Civilization "Dohrn-van Rossum paints a highly nuanced picture of time's conquest of modern life."--Steven…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 463
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



List of Figures



Introduction



The Division of the Day and Time-Keeping in Antiquity



The Medieval Hours (Hora)



Medieval Horologia and the Development of the Wheeled Clock



From Prestige Object to Urban Accessory: the Diffusion of Public Clocks in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries



Late Medieval Clockmakers



Clock Time Signal, Communal Bell, and Municipal Signal Systems



The Ordering of Time: The Introduction of Modern Hour-Reckoning



Work Time and Hourly Wage



Coordination and Acceleration: Time-Keeping and Transportation and Communications up to the Introduction of "World Time"


Conventions


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index