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Histoire des horloges, montres et pendules / par Eric Bruton ; [trad. et adapt.: Yvette Gogue].

By:

Bruton, Eric [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gogue, Yvette [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: French Original language: English Publisher: Paris : CELIV, 1989Description: 288 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cmContent type:

still image
text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9782731200232
2731200235

Other title:

Horloges, montres et pendules

Uniform titles:

History of clocks and watches. French

Subject(s):

Summary: The measurement of time was one of man's earliest obsessions, and the desire for ever greater precision in time-keeping has inspired generations in the fields of mathematics and science. Equally, each advance has produced accompanying works of great craftsmanship that have turned objects of sober function into things of outstanding beauty. Eric Bruton traces the path of this development from the simple shepherd's dial made of clay, through the rush of horological activity that followed the invention of the pendulum in the mid-seventeenth century, to the perfection escapement developments that form the basic principles of the complex electronic circuitry of our clocks and watches today. Combining specially commissioned line drawings, magnificent color illustrations and a lucid, authoritative text,

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Translation of: The History of clocks and watches, published in 1979.

The measurement of time was one of man's earliest obsessions, and the desire for ever greater precision in time-keeping has inspired generations in the fields of mathematics and science. Equally, each advance has produced accompanying works of great craftsmanship that have turned objects of sober function into things of outstanding beauty. Eric Bruton traces the path of this development from the simple shepherd's dial made of clay, through the rush of horological activity that followed the invention of the pendulum in the mid-seventeenth century, to the perfection escapement developments that form the basic principles of the complex electronic circuitry of our clocks and watches today. Combining specially commissioned line drawings, magnificent color illustrations and a lucid, authoritative text,

In French, translated from the English.

31560000063442 5116

Coffee table book, anthology of timepieces

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