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A General History of Horology

by Anthony Turner

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A global reference work on the history of timekeeping

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A global reference work on the history of timekeeping

Edited by Anthony Turner, this substantial volume traces the instruments used to find and measure time from antiquity through the twenty-first century. Its scope extends across East Asia, the Americas, and other regions, placing clocks, timekeeping devices, and related practices within both technical and social history. Case studies provide focused entry points into subjects too broad for exhaustive treatment in one volume, while chapters also address horological scholarship, historiography, and collecting. The book combines a wide survey of the field with newly presented research, making the technical foundations of horology central to its historical account.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students and historians of technology
  • Collectors and enthusiasts of clocks and timekeeping instruments
  • General readers seeking a worldwide history of horology

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Time measurementHistory of technologyHorological instrumentsGlobal historyCollecting and historiography

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Book overview

A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book.

The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamental, new and original research.
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