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

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO810178
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Year:
2007
Publisher:
Hambledon Continuum
Language:
English
Pages:
462
ISBN 10:
1852854510
ISBN 13:
9781852854515
ISBN:
1852855711,9781852855710,1852854510,9781852854515

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