Książka God's Clockmaker J.D. North

God's Clockmaker

Autor: J.D. North,
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2006
strony
464
EAN
9781852855710
ISBN
1852855711
Enbook ID
04405393
Waga
666
Wymiary
234 x 156 x 25

Pełny opis

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, where he built his clock. Although as abbot he held great power, he was also a tragic figure, becoming a leper. His achievement, nevertheless, is a striking example of the sophistication of medieval science, based on knowledge handed down from the Greeks via the Arabs.

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