History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders - Rilegato

Dohrn-Van Rossum, Gerhard

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0226155102 ISBN 13: 9780226155104

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum teaches medieval and early modern history at the University of Bielefeld and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Product Description:

Book by Dohrnvan Rossum Gerhard

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226155102
• ISBN 13: 9780226155104
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 455