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Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Carlo M. Cipolla
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Before the Industrial Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Carlo M. Cipolla
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Telling Time
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Stuart Sherman
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time
History of the Hour
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution
Guns, Sails and Empires
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Carlo M. Cipolla
Categories: Ordnance
Type: BOOK - Published: 1967 - Publisher:

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