The Clockwork universe : German clocks and automata, 1550-1650 / edited by Klaus Maurice and Otto Mayr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution ; 1980Publisher: New York : N. Watson Academic Publications, 1980Edition: [First edition]Description: ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0882021885
  • 9780882021881
  • 0852745427
  • 9780852745427
Other title:
  • German edition title: West als Uhr
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Clockwork universe.
Contents:
A mechanical symbol for an authoritarian world -- The clock as intellectual artifact -- The mechanical clock and the scientific revolution -- Propagatio fidei per scientias: Jesuit gifts to the Chinese court -- The role of clocks in the imperial Honoraria for the Turks -- Astrolabe clock faces -- The Augsburg clockmakers' craft -- Jost Bürgi, or on innovation -- To finance a clock: an example of patronage in the 16th century -- History and mathematical analysis of the fusee -- The clock and its base -- Automatic music: the Bidermann-Langenbucher lawsuit -- Telling time without a clock -- Counting the hours in community life of the 16th century.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS541.G32 M858 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000031282

Catalog of an exhibition held in Munich, Germany, April 15 to Sept. 30, 1980, and in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 1980 to Feb. 15, 1981, and organized by the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A mechanical symbol for an authoritarian world -- The clock as intellectual artifact -- The mechanical clock and the scientific revolution -- Propagatio fidei per scientias: Jesuit gifts to the Chinese court -- The role of clocks in the imperial Honoraria for the Turks -- Astrolabe clock faces -- The Augsburg clockmakers' craft -- Jost Bürgi, or on innovation -- To finance a clock: an example of patronage in the 16th century -- History and mathematical analysis of the fusee -- The clock and its base -- Automatic music: the Bidermann-Langenbucher lawsuit -- Telling time without a clock -- Counting the hours in community life of the 16th century.

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This book is the catalogue of the exhibition by the same name shown in Munich (Bayrisches Nationalmuseum) in 1980 and in Washington DC (Smithsonian) in 1981, conceived by the Smithsonian, but based mainly on inventory of the BNM. Many orrery, planetariums, telluriums etc

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