Name: god's clockmaker
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Author: North, John
ISBN: 9781852854515

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Author

John North

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

462

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1 x 16.8 x 3.9 cm

Weight

0.86 kg.

ISBN

1852854510

ISBN13

9781852854515

Synopsis "god's clockmaker"

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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