TY  - BOOK
AU  - North,John David
TI  - God's clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time 
SN  - 1852854510
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Hambledon and London
KW  - Richard,
KW  - Richard (of Wallingford)
KW  - Saint Albans
KW  - Kloster
KW  - swd
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Clock and watch makers
KW  - Clock and watch making
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - Time
KW  - Astronomes
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Horlogers
KW  - Temps
KW  - time
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
KW  - Zeitmessung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Mathematik
KW  - Tijdmeting
KW  - gtt
KW  - Klokken
KW  - Klokkenmakers
KW  - nli
KW  - England
KW  - abbot Wallingford Richard
KW  - Hambedon & London
KW  - North John
KW  - biography astronomical monumental/big specific oeuvre
KW  - Biographie
KW  - Biografie
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 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
N2  - A biography of Richard of Wallingford, a medieval abbot, mathematician and scientist who built a pioneering astronomical and astrological clock
ER  -