Clocks and Culture 1300-1700

Author/Contributor(s):	Cipolla, Carlo M
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	08/01/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.