On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping Mondschein Kenneth
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping Mondschein Kenneth Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. Without…
Specifikacia On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping Mondschein Kenneth
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping Mondschein Kenneth
Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought.
This quest toward automation--which gave rise to the Gregorian calendar, the factory clock, and even the near-disastrous Y2K bug--has led to profound social repercussions and driven the creation of the modern scientific mindset.Surveying the From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world to the tower clocks of the Middle Ages to the seagoing chronometer, the quartz watch, and the atomic clock, greater precision and accuracy have had profound effects on human society--which, in turn, has driven the quest for further precision and accuracy.
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