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Clocks, Politics and Changing Times

The clocks in the exhibition Precision and Splendor reflect some of the major debates about time that have occurred over the last 500 years. This lecture with Kevin K. Birth, Queens College, City University of New York, will discuss the relevance of the clocks on view to our understanding of some of the great historic changes in timekeeping, including the Gregorian calendar and the Counter-Reformation, the Copernican revolution, the replacement of solar time with mean time, and the French Revolution’s failed experiment with decimal time.

 

 











When: Wed., Oct. 16, 2013 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: The Frick Collection
1 E. 70th St.
212-288-0700
Price: Free after 5:45 p.m.; no reservation required
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The clocks in the exhibition Precision and Splendor reflect some of the major debates about time that have occurred over the last 500 years. This lecture with Kevin K. Birth, Queens College, City University of New York, will discuss the relevance of the clocks on view to our understanding of some of the great historic changes in timekeeping, including the Gregorian calendar and the Counter-Reformation, the Copernican revolution, the replacement of solar time with mean time, and the French Revolution’s failed experiment with decimal time.

 

 

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