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 readpic.twitter.com/bkwfTXgqyL
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I remember this vignette. Athenian democratic debate (or Roman?) using crude water clocks to allot speaker time. Verbose speaker asks for some water, is invited to drink from the water clock that's timing him.
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