Overview
Explores the changing use of clocks and watches from 1550-1770 to offer new insights into early modern perceptions of time
Focuses on the design of dials, showing how their shifting functions and appearances are central to knowledge transmission during this period
Considers the wider context of literature, emotion and temporality, connecting changing ideas about time with other aspects of early modern culture
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About the author
Jane Desborough is Curator of Scientific Instruments at the Science Museum in London, where she manages the museum’s Time Measurement collection. She has worked in a curatorial capacity in museums since 2008 and completed her PhD thesis in the History of Science in 2016. She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and an Associate Member of the Museums Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Changing Face of Early Modern Time, 1550–1770
Authors: Jane Desborough
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15353-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15352-6Published: 10 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15353-3Published: 27 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 292
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intellectual Studies, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Technology, Cultural History