God's Clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time PDF
by John North
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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, 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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- Pages:464 pages, 80
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780826444745
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:464 pages, 80
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780826444745