cyclical time/linear time/

Since time measurement differs at different location in geography and calendar days, semi relative precision of time keeping serve the purpose adaquately enough to announce specific times of the day, such as sunrise, noon, and sunset.    Though political power employing time has its origins with the Greeks where a Clepsedrae is used to limit speeches in court and similar civil procedures, the shift of power begins with the execution of the Escapement wheel beginning in late Renaissance.  The Escapement is a device invented in the late fourteenth century but not perfected until the industrial revolution.  It is an adjustable device, which has been manifested in many forms, such as the Pendulum to give precise regulating power in keeping time to the exact minutes and seconds.

Paradoxically, time is there once to serve mankind.³   The more precisely man strives to regulate time the more precisely man is regulated by time.   Horologium is the Latin word for the present equivalent of clocks, yet its literal meaning is Time-Keeper.  Musician keeps time in a metaphorical sense, which denotes time as something already possessed and only kept in harmony and rhythm.  As time gradually becomes a civic order and a political power since the Industrial Revolution, it has manifested itself as a race between man and himself.

3) History Of The Hour - Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders, Dorn-van Rossum, Gerhard
 
 

Allegory of Temperantia from a fifteenth-century manuscript De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus by Pseudo-Seneca. Dresden, Sachisische Landesbibliothek	Sundial for indicating the canonical hours on the minster at Hameln
Miniature in a psalter for a noble lady. Paris, Bibiliotheque de l'Arsenal, Ms. 1186, folio I Verso	Miniature in a manuscript of a French translation of  Heinrich Seuse's Horologium Sapientiae (around 1450) Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, Ms. IV, iii folio 13 verso	System of bell signals a San Marco in Venice

Miniature in a manuscript of Heinrich Seuse's Horologium Sapientiae (around 1406) dedicated to Marie de Berry.  Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, Ms. 926, folio 113

Views of Erfurt and an imaginary city in Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik  (1497).  Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Clockmaker's shop.  Detail from a picture of planet children (fifteenth cenutury). Modena, Biblioteca Estence, Ms. lat. 209, folio II

School Scene swith sandglass (right) Title page to Martin Luther's An die Ratsherrn Aller Stadte Deutschen Landes, dass sie Christliche Schulen errichten und halten sollen (Wittenberg, 1524).  Heidelberge, Universitatsbiblothek Teacher with sandglass. Title page to Ulrich Zwingli's Lehrbuchlein wie man Kanben christlich unterweisen und erziehen soll (Zurich, 1523).  Munich, Bayersiche Staatsbibliothek.

Astrologer with astrolabe and striking clock, from the Clants royaux sur la conception (1519-28). Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale

School scene with sandglass, in a Pentaeuch written in Coburg around 1395.  London, British Library, Ms. Add. 19776, folio 72 verso

Torture scene by Alessandro Magnasco (1710).  Frankfurt am Main, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut

Manufacturing of razor in the English manner.  Iron plate engraving (1783)

Time fuse in Newe vuerfarne treffenliche vortheile zu allerhand Kriegsu bungen im veld und bevestungen durch Veitt Wolffen von Senfftenberg aus Osterrich Itzo der von Dantzig Czeugmeitern furgegeben Anno 1568.  Dresden Sachsische Landesbibliothek