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Do you want articles or books? Actually, if I just point you towards the two big books in the field of early clock history, that should, in turn, point you to more than enough articles.

Gerhard Dohrn-Van Rossum. The History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. Thomas Dunlap, trans. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Landes, David. Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. 2nd edition. (Cambridge, MA and London: the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000).

If you're really more interested in social impact, those two books deal with it extensively, and are recent enough to cover most bibliography, but you might also want to try

Humphrey, Chris, and W. M. Ormrod (eds.) Time in the Medieval World. (York, UK: York Medieval Press in association wiith the Boydell Press, 2001).

The Humphrey and Ormrod book is probably going to be much harder to get ahold of than the other two, which are in print on this side of the ocean, and both easy for the likes of us to buy and fairly frequent in libraries. It's a collection of essays, published in England, still pretty new, and pricy.

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