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| #4862056 in Books | 1967-03 | Format: Import | Original language:English | File type: PDF | 192 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| CLOCKS, CULTURE AND MORE!|By Larry C|Thought I reviewed it already. In any event, the book has stood the test of time.(Sorry) Professor Cipolla's book covers both Asia and Europe and takes the reader well beyond mere clocks covering everything from Jesuit scientists, if you will, in Japan & China (including the Imperial Palace) to Jewish Clockmakers in Catalonia, Spain; and,||Cipolla has a sharp eye for the heaven in a grain of sand. He takes a prosaic piece of hardware and uses it as a path into some of the central themes of history.... Imaginative and wide-ranging. — The Economist||Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic a
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.
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