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100 1 _aNorth, John David,
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_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50065139
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245 1 0 _aGod's clockmaker :
_bRichard of Wallingford and the invention of time /
_cJohn North.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bHambledon Continuum,
_c2006.
300 _axvii, 441 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 411-423) and index.
520 _aClocks 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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590 _aPaperback 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.
600 0 0 _aRichard,
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653 2 _aContinuum
653 1 _aNorth John
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