num_pages: 206
description: The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization. How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture. In his introduction, Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, puts this classic book in perspective. 14 b/w illustrations
language: English
title: Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700
titlecomplete: Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 (Norton Library)
genres: History Of Science, History, China, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 131
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company