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On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping

By Kenneth Mondschein
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By Kenneth Mondschein
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An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity.

Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the anc...

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