God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time /
John North.
- xvii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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