【Amazon.com List Price: $70.00 19 new from $53.1311 used from $45.00】 Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 (Hardcover) ~Paul Glennie (Author),Nigel Thrift(Author) "We want to introduce this book by way of a story told of Galileo Galilei by his first biographer (and former pupil) Vincenzio Viviani..." Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA (March 25, 2009) Language:English Product Dimensions:9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight:2.1 pounds
Product Description Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time.Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period.Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars.Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how \"telling the time\" has come to dominate our way of life. 目次 List of FiguresList of PlatesList of Tables 1. Introduction: The Measured Heart 2. Clocks, Clock-times, and Social Change 3. \"Not Everyone Occupies the Same Now\": Reconceptualising Clock Times 4. Clock-times in Medieval and Early Modern Bristol 5. Temporal Infrasturcture: The Provision of Clock-Time in England 6. Clock-times in Everyday Lives 7. Precision in Everyday Lives 8. \"Posted Within Shot of the Grave\": Temporal Practices Among Seafarers 9. The Pursuit of Precision 10. \"Clocks from Nowhere\"? John Harrison in Context 11. Some Concluding RemarksBibliographyIndex
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