God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / / John North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 115 |
Soggetto topico | Time |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-02481-7
9786612024818 0-8264-4474-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454033103321 |
North John David | ||
London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / / John North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 115 |
Soggetto topico | Time |
ISBN |
1-282-02481-7
9786612024818 0-8264-4474-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782813503321 |
North John David | ||
London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / / John North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 115 |
Soggetto topico | Time |
ISBN |
1-282-02481-7
9786612024818 0-8264-4474-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829291203321 |
North John David | ||
London, [England] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stars, minds, and fate : essays in ancient and medieval cosmology / J.D. North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Cosmology, Ancient
Cosmology, Medieval Astronomy, Ancient Astronomy, Medieval Astrology Science - History |
ISBN |
1-4725-4091-3
1-283-20160-7 9786613201607 0-8264-2494-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual
16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461500203321 |
North John David | ||
London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stars, minds, and fate : essays in ancient and medieval cosmology / J.D. North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Cosmology, Ancient
Cosmology, Medieval Astronomy, Ancient Astronomy, Medieval Astrology Science - History |
ISBN |
1-4725-4091-3
1-283-20160-7 9786613201607 0-8264-2494-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual
16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789776103321 |
North John David | ||
London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stars, minds, and fate : essays in ancient and medieval cosmology / J.D. North |
Autore | North John David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina |
523.1
523.109 |
Soggetto topico |
Cosmology, Ancient
Cosmology, Medieval Astronomy, Ancient Astronomy, Medieval Astrology Science - History |
ISBN |
1-4725-4091-3
1-283-20160-7 9786613201607 0-8264-2494-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Attractions of Past Science; 2 Moon and Megaliths; 3 By Direction from Above; 4 Neolithic Newtons; 5 Venus, By Jupiter!; 6 On the Trail of the Comet; 7 The Culmination of Ptolemy; 8 Astrology and the Fortunes of Churches; 9 Chronology and the Age of the World; 10 Between Experience and Experiment; 11 Opus quarundam rotarum mirabilium; 12 Monasticism and the First Mechanical Clocks; 13 Hierarchy, Creation, and II Veltro: Three Footnotes to Dante's Inferno; 14 The Astrolabe; 15 Astrolabes and the Hour-Line Ritual
16 Summa ratione confectum: An Astrolabe Drawn by Computer17 Eternity and Infinity in Late Medieval Thought; 18 Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology; 19 Intimations of Cosmic Unity? Fourteenth-Century Views on Celestial and Sub-Lunar Motion; 20 Kinematics - More Ethereal than Elementary; 21 The Alfonsine Tables in England; 22 1348 and All That: Oxford Science and the Black Death; 23 Nicolaus Kratzer - The King's Astronomer; 24 The Medieval Background to Copernicus; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828513703321 |
North John David | ||
London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., : Hambledon Press, 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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