Clocks and Culture 1300-1700 - (Norton Library) by Carlo M Cipolla (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? <em>Clocks and Culture</em> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic and technological development by which the continent thrust into the forefront of civilization.-- "The Listener"<br><br>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"<br>
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