Time has been mechanized already by sundials. These chains of time have been increasingly refined to accumulate in the advent of the atomic clock. So-called Naturla units were even invented. Without mechanized time the world would have looked very different. Maybe we have some kind of marshmallow minds. Maybe we could better wear aikhornnuts on our wrists as Krznaric puts it.

Wgen were the first mechanized timekeepers used in science? Was Galileo the first one? Did this use further science a lot? So newer means and more precise keepers could be constructed?