The ordering of time : from the ancient computus to the modern computer / Arno Borst ; translated from the German by Andrew Winnard.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: ix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- still image
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- 0226066584
- 9780226066585
- 0226066592
- 9780226066592
- Computus. English
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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