History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders - Couverture souple

Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard

 
9780226155111: History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226155110 ISBN 13 : 9780226155111
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. Detailing the clock's effects on social activity, he presents a vivid picture of a society regulated by the precise measurement of identical hours. "In tracing the evolution of time consciousness with scholarship and skill . . . Dohrn-van Rossum evokes the many ways that the small moments of life have come to be reckoned with the passage of time". -Dava Sobel, Civilization "Dohrn-van Rossum paints a highly nuanced picture of time's conquest of modern life". -Steven Lagerfeld, Wilson Quarterly "This book is definitive in showing the clock's pervasive influence over European society". -Virginia Quarterly Review" [A] delightful, excellently translated history". -Choice "Dohrn-van Rossum has produced a persuasive and brilliantly documented new understanding of how modern time-consciousness arose". -Owen Gingerich, Nature

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. Detailing the clock's effects on social activity, he presents a vivid picture of a society regulated by the precise measurement of identical hours. "In tracing the evolution of time consciousness with scholarship and skill . . . Dohrn-van Rossum evokes the many ways that the small moments of life have come to be reckoned with the passage of time". -Dava Sobel, Civilization "Dohrn-van Rossum paints a highly nuanced picture of time's conquest of modern life". -Steven Lagerfeld, Wilson Quarterly "This book is definitive in showing the clock's pervasive influence over European society". -Virginia Quarterly Review" [A] delightful, excellently translated history". -Choice "Dohrn-van Rossum has produced a persuasive and brilliantly documented new understanding of how modern time-consciousness arose". -Owen Gingerich, Nature

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226155110
ISBN 13 
9780226155111
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
468
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780226155104: History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226155102 ISBN 13 :  9780226155104
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1996
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