The History and Evolution of Clocks Across Human Civilization
How did humans learn to measure something they cannot see, touch, or hold—time?
In this episode of The Gentle Inquiry, we journey through humanity’s fascinating history of timekeeping, from ancient sundials and water clocks to pendulums and increasingly precise mechanical clocks. Along the way, we discover the surprising idea of Carl Linnaeus’s floral clock, which used the predictable opening and closing of flowers as nature’s own way of telling time.
From the movement of the Sun to the rhythm of blooming flowers and the precision of mechanical gears, the history of clocks reveals more than…
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