History of the hour : clocks and modern temporal orders / Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard, 1947-

Standardized Title:

Geschichte der Stunde. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Clocks and watches--History.

Clocks and watches.

History.

Time measurements--History.

Time measurements.

Physical Description:

xi, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]

Summary:

List of Figures 1: Introduction 2: The Division of the Day and Time-Keeping in Antiquity 3: The Medieval Hours (Hora) 4: Medieval Horologia and the Development of the Wheeled Clock 5: From Prestige Object to Urban Accessory: the Diffusion of Public Clocks in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 6: Late Medieval Clockmakers 7: Clock Time Signal, Communal Bell, and Municipal Signal Systems 8: The Ordering of Time: The Introduction of Modern Hour-Reckoning 9: Work Time and Hourly Wage 10: Coordination and Acceleration: Time-Keeping and Transportation and Communications up to the Introduction of "World Time" Conventions Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Translation of: Die Geschichte der Stunde.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-324) and index.

ISBN:

0226155102

0226155110

OCLC:

33440282