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North John - God's Clockmaker Richard Of Wallingford And The Invention Of Time - Hardcover
North John - God's Clockmaker Richard Of Wallingford And The Invention Of Time - Hardcover
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Description: 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 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.
Title: God's Clockmaker Richard Of Wallingford And The Invention Of Time
Author(s): North John
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781852854515
Pages: 462 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2005
Category: Philosophy
Description: 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 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.
Title: God's Clockmaker Richard Of Wallingford And The Invention Of Time
Author(s): North John
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781852854515
Pages: 462 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2005
Category: Philosophy
