Abstract

URIBE, Ricardo  and  ARAYA, Valentina. Sources for a History of Social Time in Spain and America. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.243-275.  Epub Oct 10, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n37.80266.

To conclude this dossier, we have selected, presented and transcribed three texts produced in the last quarter of the 18th century: The Instructions for the new astronomical clocks (c. 1785-1790); the Report of the camera watchmaker Manuel Zerella and Ycoaga on the status of the Royal School of Watchmaking in Madrid (1784); and the Real Cédula to reform the ringing of bells (1794). This unpublished material is now available to the specialized public as an example of how changes occur in a continuous phenomenon such as time. Three documents that show us some possibilities of how a society objectifies time according to the needs and parameters of its present.

Keywords : chronometer; clocks; bells; social time; written culture; Spanish empire.

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