Richard of Wallingford : an edition of his writings / with introductions, English translation and commentary by J.D. North.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976Edition: [First edition]Description: 3 volumes (xxii, 567 pages ; [5], 387 pages ; viii, 391 pages, leaf of plates, xxiv pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portrait ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198581394
  • 9780198581390
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
I. Texts and translations.--II. The life of Richard of Wallingford: introductions and commentaries to the texts.--III. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossaries, bibliography, and indexes.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB23 .R5 1976 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000048096
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB23 .R5 1976 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000048187
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB23 .R5 1976 v.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000048195

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 3, pages 292-300).

I. Texts and translations.--II. The life of Richard of Wallingford: introductions and commentaries to the texts.--III. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossaries, bibliography, and indexes.

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Volume one of the comprehensive, multi-volume scholarly edition and translation of the works of Richard of Walingford (1292-1336), the inventor and builder of the earliest fully documented complicated mechanical clock in the world, plus his biography. Clock built at convent of St.Albans UK around 1330 incorporating eliptical wheels, plnetary motion and eclipse information. Also invented the Rectangulus and the Albion, two inovative astronomical instruments.

Volume two of the comprehensive, multi-volume scholarly edition and translation of the works of Richard of Walingford (1292-1336), the inventor and builder of the earliest fully documented complicated mechanical clock in the world, plus his biography. Clock built at convent of St.Albans UK around 1330 incorporating eliptical wheels, plnetary motion and eclipse information. Also invented the Rectangulus and the Albion, two inovative astronomical instruments.

Volume three of the comprehensive, multi-volume scholarly edition and translation of the works of Richard of Walingford (1292-1336), the inventor and builder of the earliest fully documented complicated mechanical clock in the world, plus his biography. Clock built at convent of St.Albans UK around 1330 incorporating eliptical wheels, plnetary motion and eclipse information. Also invented the Rectangulus and the Albion, two inovative astronomical instruments.

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