Clocks provide a fascinating trace of cultural evolution. In the mechanical clocks chapter for example, we see the shift from oral to visual captured (pure striking clocks, faces with just hour hand, hour+minute hand)
Yeah, it's a solid association. Here's a particularly good musing on it https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/modernism-time-and-consciousness-the-influence-of-henri-bergson-and-marcel-proust …
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I did not know that! Thanks (interesting+useful for in-planning book project on all this)
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