On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Mondschein, Kenneth
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Mondschein, Kenneth

On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping

Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the...
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On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Mondschein, Kenneth

On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping

CHF 66.27
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Mondschein, Kenneth

On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping

CHF 66.27
Author: Kenneth Mondschein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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. 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 evolution of the clock from prehistory to the twenty-first century, Mondschein explains how both the technology and the philosophy behind Western timekeeping regimes came to take over the entire world. On Time is a story of thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and of the thousand decisions that continue to shape our daily lives.



Author: Kenneth Mondschein
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781421438276

About the Author

Historian Ken Mondschein is a full-time contingent faculty member who teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Mount Ida, Boston University, and Anna Maria College. He is the editor and translator of Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise and the cotranslator of Flowers of Battle, Volume III: Florius de Arte Luctandi.




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