God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / John North.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-423) and index.

Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. This work is a biography of England's greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical problems to build an extraordinary and pioneering astronomical and astrological clock.

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Paperback edition of the condensed version for the interested layman of the earlier, highly scholarly multi-volume biography of Abbot Richard of Wallingford (United Kingdom 14th century) and description of the complex astronomical clock he invented and built around 1350. Includes socio economic and theological background information. Illustrated, index, bibliography.