Question

In the fourteenth century, people began to track the passage of time more carefully due to

Question 26 options:

a)

most towns agreeing that only one church bell would ring the hours.


b)

the invention and proliferation of mechanical clocks.


c)

the recent adoption of Islamic methods of timekeeping.


d)

the increased use of sundials.


e)

the standardization of candles, which burned hour by hour.

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

b) the invention and proliferation of mechanical clocks.

In the fourteenth century, mechanical clocks began to emerge and spread across Europe, leading to a more precise and standardized way of tracking time compared to previous methods.