Description
How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture. In his introduction, Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, puts this classic book in perspective.
About the Author
Carlo M. Cipolla was the author of Before the Industrial Revolution and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He died in 2000.
Reviews
"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." -- The Economist
"Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic and technological development by which the continent thrust into the forefront of civilization." -- The Listener
Book Information
ISBN 9780393324433
Author Carlo M. Cipolla
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 15mm
About the Author
Carlo M. Cipolla was the author of Before the Industrial Revolution and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He died in 2000.
Reviews
"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." -- The Economist
"Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic and technological development by which the continent thrust into the forefront of civilization." -- The Listener
Book Information
ISBN 9780393324433
Author Carlo M. Cipolla
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 15mm
