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008			951031s1996 ilua b 001 0 eng
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035			_a(OCoLC)33440282
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100	1		_aDohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard, _d1947- _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83120674 _94189
240	1	0	_aGeschichte der Stunde. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aHistory of the hour : _bclocks and modern temporal orders / _cGerhard Dohrn-van Rossum ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
250			_a[First English edition].
264		1	_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c[1996]
264		4	_c©1996
300			_axi, 455 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aTranslation of: Die Geschichte der Stunde.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.
505	0		_a1. Introduction -- 2. The Division of the Day and Time-Keeping in Antiquity -- 3. The Medieval Hours (Hora) -- 4. Medieval Horologia and the Development of the Wheeled Clock -- 5. From Prestige Object to Urban Accessory: the Diffusion of Public Clocks in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- 6. Late Medieval Clockmakers -- 7. Clock Time Signal, Communal Bell, and Municipal Signal Systems -- 8. The Ordering of Time: The Introduction of Modern Hour-Reckoning -- 9. Work Time and Hourly Wage -- 10. Coordination and Acceleration: Time-Keeping and Transportation and Communications up to the Introduction of "World Time" Conventions.
520			_aHistory of the Hour presents the first sustained and reliable treatment of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many myths associated with the clock's history. For example, Dohrn-van Rossum argues that, in their race to display the grandest clocks, monarchs and princes were more responsible than merchants for introducing clocks into urban environments. This work also questions what is generally believed regarding the clock's invention, including the.
520			_aRole of the hour-glass, the arrival of the mechanical clock before scientific rationality, and the obscure history of the escapement, the clock's regulating mechanism.
546			_aIn English, translated from the German.
562			_331560000039814 _b521
590			_aHistory of time and timekeeping - scientific philosophica;
650		0	_aClocks and watches _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101137 _97530
650		0	_aTime measurements _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010116545 _93850
650		0	_aClocks and watches _zEurope _xHistory _vSources.
650		0	_aTime measurements _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aTime perception _xSocial aspects _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial change _zEurope _xHistory.
653		0	_aHistory
653		2	_aTime philosophy
653		0	_aTime
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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