God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time - Image 1

£64.99

Bloomsbury God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time

Name: God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time
Brand: Bloomsbury
Price: 64.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Europe

Price History & Forecast

Last 8 days • 8 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 8 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £65 (8 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £65 - £65

Price levels: 1 different prices over 8 days

Description

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.

Key Features

God's Clockmaker

Product type: ABIS_BOOK

Brand: Continuum International Publishing

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1852855711
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Europe
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 November 2006
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

Bede: The Reckoning of Time (Translated Texts for Historians, Vol 29)): Second, Revised Edition

Schiffer Mystery, Novelty, & Fantasy Clocks - Collector Guide

European Clocks and Watches: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Of Clocks and Time (IOP Concise Physics)

The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler: Robert Earl of Gloucester and the Reigns of Henry I and Stephen

In Search of Lost Time

Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature

Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America

PRECISION PENDULUM CLOCKS: The 300-year Quest for Accurate Timekeeping in England: Volume 3 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch Design

History: Fiction or Science? Chronology Vol.IV: Why, When and Who invented the Antiquity?

The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience (Stanford Business Books (Hardcover))

Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century: The Industrialized Manufacture of Domestic Mechanical Clocks

Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things (Translated Texts for Historians): 66

Harrison Decoded: Towards A Perfect Pendulum Clock

Bede and the End of Time (Studies in Early Medieval Britain)

Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science

Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time

Bede: On the Nature of Things and on Times: 56 (Translated Texts for Historians)

King Alfred the Great

On Language, Theology, and Utopia

History: Fiction or Science? Mediæval World Empire • Conquest of the Promised Land (New Chronology; vol.6,part 1)

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster