Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Clocks and their discovery

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Description: Does technology, or the need for technology in the culture come first? Simon Schaffer in St Alban's Abbey reflects on the connection between Christianity and clocks. God as the omniscient clock-maker.

Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 17:12
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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