On Time
A History of Western Timekeeping
$86.54
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2020
Summary
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 as…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421438276 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421438275 |
| Author: | Kenneth Mondschein |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
That On Time is interactive is certainly a bonus. Mondschein provides activities, or exercises, to bring alive the abstract concepts and scientific observations he describes in each chapter—a fabulous idea that should be more widely adopted if a subject lends itself to this type of experimentation.
—Esther Liberman Cuenca, University of Houston, Victoria, Speculum
engaging book
—J. Lennart Berggren, The Compendium
Kenneth Mondschein
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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