What is Time? Mechanical Clocks

The emergence of mechanical devices as a means of telling the time was the start of a revolution in timekeeping, relieving the general public from reliance on freezing waterclocks or cloud-obstructed sundials. (This is the fifth post of Time and Clocks, the thread that follows Time and Calendars.) Europe emerged from its Dark Ages, with stability and order spread throughout ...

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