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Material histories of time : objects and practices, 14th-19th centuries / edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi, Susanne Thürigen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bernasconi, Gianenrico, 1973- editor.
Thürigen, Susanne, 1986- editor.
Series:
Object Studies in Art History
Object Studies in Art History ; 3
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Time--Sociological aspects.
Time.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 p.)
Place of Publication:
Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020]
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
Die Forschungsgeschichte der Zeit wird traditionell von einer Trennung zwischen technikhistorischen Ansätzen, welche die Entwicklung der Zeitmessung nachzeichnen, und sozial- und kulurhistorischen Ansätzen, die sich etwa mit Fragen nach dem Zeitbewusstsein oder gesellschaftlicher Synchronisierung und Disziplinierung beschäftigen, bestimmt. "Material Histories of Time" eröffnet einen Dialog zwischen beiden Zugängen. Ausgehend von den Objekten wie zum Beispiel Monumental-, Tisch- und tragbare Uhren sowie Kutschenuhren werden Praktiken der Zeitmessung und -erfahrung untersucht. Die Beiträge reichen von den Anfängen der mechanischen Zeitmessumg im Mittelalter bis zur Industrialisierung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.
The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one hand, and research that is concerned with the examination of the cultures and uses of time on the other hand. Material Histories of Time opens a dialogue between these two approaches by taking monumental clocks, table clocks, portable watches, carriage clocks, and other forms of timekeeping as the starting point of a joint reflection of specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time. The contributions range from the apparition of the first timekeeping mechanical systems in the Middle Ages to the first evidence of industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Musique et Jouvence au royaume de France. Le Roman de Fauvel et la fontaine de Cleveland (Paris, vers 1320)
Designing a Model of the Cosmos. Theoretical and Visual Considerations Concerning the Construction of Astronomical Clocks through Early Modern Times
The 16th-century Astronomical Clock of the National Maritime Museum of Greenwich. Cultural and Sensorial Analysis
Clocks, Clock Time and Time Consciousness in the Visual Arts. William Hogarth’s Modern Moral Subjects
De l’acquisition au réglage. L’horlogerie parisienne du xviiie siècle et ses usages
Time Technologies. Londoners and Their Timepieces (1775–1825)
La montre et l’odomètre. À propos de l’Itinéraire des routes les plus fréquentées de Louis Dutens (1775)
Les montres de voyage. Désignations, techniques et usages (1700–1830)
Les voyageurs et leurs montres en Europe à la fin du xviiie siècle. Entre précision technique et flou temporel
Time Management at School from the Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. A Few Cases in Point
Temps et cuisine, xviie–xviiie siècles. Remarques sur les pratiques de transformation alimentaire
Clocks and Timekeeping in Lavoisier’s Experiments on Animal Respiration. The Chemical Revolution, Its Material Culture and Taken-for-Granted Knowledge
Broken Watches. Sources and Methods for the Study of Time Consciousness
The First Black Forest Clock. How a Fake Impacted Our Notion of Clock History
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Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9783110622324
3110622327
9783110625035
3110625032
OCLC:
1229161377

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