Clocks and Culture 1300-1700 [Paperback]

How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution?Cipolla has a sharp eye for the heaven in a grain of sand. He takes a prosaic piece of hardware and uses it as a path into some of the central themes of history.... Imaginative and wide-ranging.Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic and technological development by which the continent thrust into the forefront of civilization.The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.