Tony Finch scripsit:

> > That poster did not mention Machiavelli, but I think that's very much
> > the point.
> 
> Perhaps because he predates clocks :-) 

Actually not.  Machiavelli's dates are 1469-1527, by which time mechanical
clocks were all over the place.  The oldest surviving such clock in
Europe is that in Salisbury Cathedral, dated 1386.

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