The development of spring driven clocks
Authors
Dugan, David
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Abstract
The domestication of clocks and the use of the uncoiling spring which allows very small clocks to be made. The personalization of time, perhaps linked to growing concepts of the individual in the Renaissance. Simon Schaffer reflects in St. Alban’s abbey.
Date
2004-08-17T15:19:42Z
Keywords
industrial revolution, individualism