TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maurice,Klaus
AU  - Mayr,Otto
ED  - National Museum of History and Technology.
ED  - Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.
TI  - The Clockwork universe: German clocks and automata, 1550-1650 
SN  - 0882021885
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Robots
KW  - Horloges
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Expositions
KW  - Automates
KW  - fast
KW  - German clocks, 1550-1650
KW  - Germany
KW  - Astronomical models planetariums orrery
KW  - Catalog astronomical clock
KW  - History
KW  - Clock (general)
KW  - Exhibition catalogs
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Catalog of an exhibition held in Munich, Germany, April 15 to Sept. 30, 1980, and in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 1980 to Feb. 15, 1981, and organized by the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; Includes bibliographical references and index; A mechanical symbol for an authoritarian world -- The clock as intellectual artifact -- The mechanical clock and the scientific revolution -- Propagatio fidei per scientias: Jesuit gifts to the Chinese court -- The role of clocks in the imperial Honoraria for the Turks -- Astrolabe clock faces -- The Augsburg clockmakers' craft -- Jost Bürgi, or on innovation -- To finance a clock: an example of patronage in the 16th century -- History and mathematical analysis of the fusee -- The clock and its base -- Automatic music: the Bidermann-Langenbucher lawsuit -- Telling time without a clock -- Counting the hours in community life of the 16th century
ER  -