Time & space : measuring instruments from the 15th to the 19th century / by Samuel Guye and Henri Michel ; photographs by Pierre Devinoy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Praeger Publishers, 1971Description: 289 pages : illustrations, 20 color plates ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Uniform titles:
  • Mesures du temps et de l'espace. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Time & space.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Clocks and watches -- Introduction -- Monumental clocks -- The Gothic clock -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The marine chronometer -- Decorative clocks -- Part 2. Ancient measuring instruments -- Measuring instruments before the Renaissance -- Terrestrial and celestial globes -- Armillary spheres and planetaria -- Astrolabes -- Sundials -- Clepsydras and hour-glasses -- Topographical instruments -- Conclusion.
Summary: "The problems of measuring time and space have occupied man's mind for centuries. This lavishly illustrated volume traces five hundred years of progress in the mechanics of determining distance and duration, together with changing fashions in form and style. The authors first examine the finest achievements of the European clockmakers' art and skill; they then turn their attention to scientific instruments for gauging spatial dimensions. The pieces described - which include the tower clocks of Venice and Berne, table clocks, pocket watches, clockmakers' jewels, astrolabes, planetariums, sundials, and hourglasses - have long fascinated specialists and collectors, who are now provided with a large body of extremely valuable information on these instruments that will interest scholar and general reader alike."-- From the publisher.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Q185 .G89 1971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000011276

Translation of Mesures du temps et de l'espace.

Includes index.

Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Clocks and watches -- Introduction -- Monumental clocks -- The Gothic clock -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The marine chronometer -- Decorative clocks -- Part 2. Ancient measuring instruments -- Measuring instruments before the Renaissance -- Terrestrial and celestial globes -- Armillary spheres and planetaria -- Astrolabes -- Sundials -- Clepsydras and hour-glasses -- Topographical instruments -- Conclusion.

"The problems of measuring time and space have occupied man's mind for centuries. This lavishly illustrated volume traces five hundred years of progress in the mechanics of determining distance and duration, together with changing fashions in form and style. The authors first examine the finest achievements of the European clockmakers' art and skill; they then turn their attention to scientific instruments for gauging spatial dimensions. The pieces described - which include the tower clocks of Venice and Berne, table clocks, pocket watches, clockmakers' jewels, astrolabes, planetariums, sundials, and hourglasses - have long fascinated specialists and collectors, who are now provided with a large body of extremely valuable information on these instruments that will interest scholar and general reader alike."-- From the publisher.

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history of time measuremnt up to 1900, translated to English from the French original

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