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History of the Hour

History of the Hour

History of the Hour

Traducció: Thomas Dunlap

Editorial: Chicago

Pàgines: 464

Any: 1996

EAN: 9780226155104

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Clocks and modern temporal orders The invention of the clock and of time measurement is one of the brilliant and consequential innovation of humankind. This richly illustrated book present the exciting cultural, technological, and social history of the mechanical clocl´s revolutionary introduction into european everyday life. Introduction; The division of the day and time-peeping in antiquity; The medieval hours; Medieval horologia and the development of the wheeled clock; From prestige object to urban accesory: The diffusion of publci clocks in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Late medieval clockmakers; Clock time signal, communal bell and municipal siganl systems; The ordering of time: the introduction of modern hour-reckoning; Work time and hourly wage; Coordination and accelaration: time-keeping and transportation and communication up to the introduction of `world time` conventions

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