Clocks Author:Simon Fleet In this delightful book about all kinds of clocks, Simon Fleet begins his story with man's earliest timepiece, a stick stuck in the ground to cast a shadow, and traces its history and evolution through sundails and waterclocks, hour glasses and measured candles to the mechanical clock as we know it. — The 136 illustrations include old prints of c... more »lockmakers and diagrams of clock mechanisms; and among the colour photographs are beautiful French and Italian Clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.« less