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Autore: | North John David |
Titolo: | God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / / John North |
Pubblicazione: | London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 |
©2006 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina: | 115 |
Soggetto topico: | Time |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: Foundations; PART TWO: An Abbot's Rule; PART THREE: Time and the Man; PART FOUR: The Springs of Western Science; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time 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. Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336), the son of a blacksmith, was a brilliant mathematician with a genius for the practical solution of technical problems. Trained at Oxford, he became a monk and then abbot of the great abbey of St Albans |
Titolo autorizzato: | God's clockmaker |
ISBN: | 1-282-02481-7 |
9786612024818 | |
0-8264-4474-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454033103321 |
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