MMW 13 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: History Of China, New Class, Textile Manufacturing
1 Jun 2017
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Mmw 13 textbook notes clocks: a revolution in time & china, technology, and. Change & the development of gunpowder and firearms in medieval china. Sundials, then water clocks and fire clocks. Chinese had almost perfectly accurate water clocks: compare to europe, where they could be as much as 30 mins behind, theirs were 1-2 minutes behind. Lost the knowledge of the intricate time-keeping devices they had by the time the. Time measurement was an urban concern, peasants didn"t need to know the time, nor did they care about it: in cities, drums were played and such to signal the time. Church began requiring evening mass, and the christians needed something to mark the time and notify people: no infrastructure to do so, and most churches were in rural areas. Shock that the sun set and rose at different times every day. Transition from church time to lay time. Expensive to install clocks, and to repair them.
