God's Clockmaker: Richard Of Wallingford And The Invention Of Time - Couverture rigide

North, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1852854510 ISBN 13 : 9781852854515

Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hambledon Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852854510
• ISBN 13: 9781852854515
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 441
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