God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / John North.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2005Description: xvii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1852854510
- 9781852854515
- 1852855711
- 9781852855710
- Richard, of Wallingford, 1292-1336
- Richard, of Wallingford, 1292-1336
- Richard, of Wallingford, 1292-1336
- Richard (of Wallingford)
- Saint Albans -- Kloster
- To 1500
- Geschichte 1310-1340
- Astronomers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Clock and watch making -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Clocks and watches -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Time
- Time
- Astronomes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Horlogers -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Temps
- time
- Astronomers
- Clock and watch makers
- Clock and watch making
- Clocks and watches
- Time
- Zeitmessung
- Mathematik
- Tijdmeting
- Klokken
- Klokkenmakers
- Astronomers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Clock and watch making -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Clocks and watches -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Time
- Great Britain
- England
- abbot Wallingford Richard
- Hambedon & London
- North John
- biography astronomical monumental/big specific oeuvre
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Foundations -- Eclipse -- The Black Monks -- Wallingford -- Oxford -- An astronomer among theologians -- The state of the kingdom -- part 2. An abbot's rule -- A new abbot -- Reprove, persuade, rebuke -- The visitor visited -- The litigious abbot -- part 3. Time and the man -- Builders and clockmakers -- Horologe and history -- The St Albans clock -- Machina mundi -- Legacy -- part 4. The springs of Western science -- The migration of ideas -- A primer in Aristotelian natural philosophy -- Natural philosophy in Oxford -- The astronomers -- The astrologers -- Instruments of thought -- Albion -- Epilogue.
A biography of Richard of Wallingford, a medieval abbot, mathematician and scientist who built a pioneering astronomical and astrological clock.
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The condensed version for the interested layman of the earlier, highly scholarly multi-volume biography of Abbot Richard of Wallingford (United Kingdom 14th century) and description of the complex astronomical clock he invented and built around 1350. Includes socio economic and theological background information. Illustrated, index, bibliography.
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