History of the Hour
Subtitle: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
Contributors: Thomas Dunlap (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 8, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780226155111
Subjects: Clocks & chronometers; Sociology, Social Studies; Time (chronology); World history; Antiques & Collectibles; History - General History; History: World; Clocks & Watches; Modern - General; Time; Science / Time; Clocks and watches; History; Time measurements
First sentence: Around the year 1410, at the dawn of Europe's modern era, an anonymous author assumed the role of an English friar and described contemporary innovations in the ways people dealt with time.