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)
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Book One of Boorstin's the Discoverers (relatively popular history of scientific progress) is all about Time and Clocks. Well worth a read
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