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==Bibliography== * Baillie, G.H., O. Clutton, & C.A. Ilbert. ''Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers'' (7th ed.). Bonanza Books (1956).<!-- Yes, the title (Britten's) is accurate --> * Bolter, David J. ''Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age''. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC (1984). {{ISBN|0-8078-4108-0}} pbk. Summary of the role of "the clock" in its setting the direction of philosophic movement for the "Western World". Cf. picture on p. 25 showing the ''verge'' and ''foliot''. Bolton derived the picture from Macey, p. 20. * {{cite book | last = Bruton | first = Eric | title = ''The History of Clocks and Watches'' | publisher = Crescent Books Distributed by Crown | location = New York | year = 1982 | isbn = 978-0-517-37744-4 }} * {{Cite book | last =Cowan | first =Harrison J. | year =1958 | title =Time and Its Measurement: From the stone age to the nuclear age |location =Ohio | publisher =The World Publishing Company| bibcode =1958tmfs.book.....C }} * {{cite book | last = Dohrn-van Rossum | first = Gerhard | others = Trans. Thomas Dunlap | title = History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders | year = 1996 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | isbn = 978-0-226-15510-4}} * Edey, Winthrop. ''French Clocks''. New York: Walker & Co. (1967). * Kak, Subhash, Babylonian and Indian Astronomy: Early Connections. 2003. * Kumar, Narendra "Science in Ancient India" (2004). {{ISBN|81-261-2056-8}}. * Landes, David S. ''Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1983). * Landes, David S. ''Clocks & the Wealth of Nations'', [[Daedalus (journal)|Daedalus Journal]], Spring 2003. * Lloyd, Alan H. "Mechanical Timekeepers", ''A History of Technology,'' Vol. III. Edited by Charles Joseph Singer et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1957), pp. 648β675. * Macey, Samuel L., ''Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought'', Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. (1980). * {{cite book | last = Needham | first = Joseph | author-link = Joseph Needham | title = Science & Civilisation in China, Vol. 4, Part 2: Mechanical Engineering | orig-date = 1965 | year = 2000 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | isbn = 978-0-521-05803-2}} * North, John. ''God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time''. London: Hambledon and London (2005). * Opie, Iona, & Moira Tatem. "A Dictionary of Superstitions". Oxford: Oxford University Press (1990). * Palmer, Brooks. ''The Book of American Clocks'', The Macmillan Co. (1979). * Robinson, Tom. ''The Longcase Clock''. Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club (1981). * Smith, Alan. ''The International Dictionary of Clocks''. London: Chancellor Press (1996). * {{cite book |last1=Stephens |first1=Carlene E. |title=On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock |date=2002 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |isbn=0-8212-2779-3 |edition=First}} * Tardy. ''French Clocks the World Over''. Part I and II. Translated with the assistance of Alexander Ballantyne. Paris: Tardy (1981). * {{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Anthony J. |year=1984 |title=The Time Museum |volume =I: ''Time Measuring Instruments''|isbn=0-912947-01-2 |publisher=The Museum |location=Rockford, IL |oclc =159866762}} * [[Joella Yoder|Yoder, Joella Gerstmeyer]]. ''Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature''. New York: Cambridge University Press (1988). * Zea, Philip, & Robert Cheney. ''Clock Making in New England: 1725β1825''. Old Sturbridge Village (1992).
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