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John North

God's Clockmaker

Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time

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Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God's Clockmaker 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, where he built his clock. Although as abbot he held great power, he was also a tragic figure, becom… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8264-4474-5
  • EAN: 9780826444745
  • Produktnummer: 17004789
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 464 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 28'975 KB
  • Abbildungen: 80

Über den Autor


John North, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy and the Exact Sciences, University of Groningen, The netherlands and Fellow of the British Academy.

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