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 ra

'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

This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution

In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks,

A long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 196