Revolution in time
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Clocks and the making of the modern world.
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…the middle ages were not as dark as usually portrayed, I recommend reading Jean Gimpel's The Medieval Machine (whom Ken Follett relied on extensively for "The Pillars of the Earth") and David Landes' A Revolution in Time.
on “Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)” ↗Revolution in Time by David Landes supposedly (I haven't read it, though it's been on my list for a while) touches on this, and how timekeeping fundamentally changed life and civilization.
on “The clock does not measure time; it produces it” ↗