The ordering of time : from the ancient computus to the modern computer / Arno Borst ; translated from the German by Andrew Winnard.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: ix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226066584
  • 9780226066585
  • 0226066592
  • 9780226066592
Uniform titles:
  • Computus. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
1. The Medieval Calendar and European History -- 2. Divine, Human and Natural Time in Greek Antiquity -- 3. Universal Time and Salvation History in Roman Antiquity -- 4. Easter Cycle and Canonical Hours in the Early Middle Ages -- 5. World Eras and Days of Human Life in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries -- 6. The Church Bell and Work Time in the Ninth Century -- 7. Perception of the Moment of Respite in the High Middle Ages -- 8. Giving and Using Time in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 9. Divided and Appointed Times in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- 10. The Confusion and Management of Calendars in the Late Middle Ages -- 11. Mechanical Clocks and Rhythmic Differences in the Fourteenth Century -- 12. The Universal Machine and Chronology in the Early Modern Period -- 13. Chronometry and Industrialization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 14. Computers and Atomic Time in the Twentieth Century -- 15. Calculable and Allotted Time.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room CE6 .B6713 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000070561

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-161) and index.

1. The Medieval Calendar and European History -- 2. Divine, Human and Natural Time in Greek Antiquity -- 3. Universal Time and Salvation History in Roman Antiquity -- 4. Easter Cycle and Canonical Hours in the Early Middle Ages -- 5. World Eras and Days of Human Life in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries -- 6. The Church Bell and Work Time in the Ninth Century -- 7. Perception of the Moment of Respite in the High Middle Ages -- 8. Giving and Using Time in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 9. Divided and Appointed Times in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- 10. The Confusion and Management of Calendars in the Late Middle Ages -- 11. Mechanical Clocks and Rhythmic Differences in the Fourteenth Century -- 12. The Universal Machine and Chronology in the Early Modern Period -- 13. Chronometry and Industrialization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 14. Computers and Atomic Time in the Twentieth Century -- 15. Calculable and Allotted Time.

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Computus, or the calculating of Time (including Calendars) over history

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