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

Title
God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / John North.
Author
North, John David.
Publication
London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2005.

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xvii, 441 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
A biography of Richard of Wallingford, a medieval abbot, mathematician and scientist who built a pioneering astronomical and astrological clock.
Subject
  • Richard, of Wallingford, 1292?-1335
  • Saint Albans > Kloster
  • To 1500
  • Geschichte 1310-1340
  • Astronomers > Great Britain > Biography
  • Clock and watch makers > Great Britain > Biography
  • Clock and watch making > Great Britain > History > To 1500
  • Clocks and watches > Great Britain > History > To 1500
  • Time
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
  • Biografie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-423) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. Foundations -- Eclipse -- The Black Monks -- Wallingford -- Oxford -- An astronomer among theologians -- The state of the kingdom -- pt. 2. An abbot's rule -- A new abbot -- Reprove, persuade, rebuke -- The visitor visited -- The litigious abbot -- pt. 3. Time and the man -- Builders and clockmakers -- Horologe and history -- The St Albans clock -- Machina mundi -- Legacy -- pt. 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.
ISBN
1852854510
OCLC
59876681
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library