Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time /
John North
New York :
Hambledon and London,
2005
xvii, 441 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. Foundations -- Eclipse -- The Black Monks -- Wallingford -- Oxford -- An astronomer among theologians -- The state of the kingdom -- pt. 2. An abbot's rule -- A new abbot -- Reprove, persuade, rebuke -- The visitor visited -- The litigious abbot -- pt. 3. Time and the man -- Builders and clockmakers -- Horologe and history -- The St Albans clock -- Machina mundi -- Legacy -- pt. 4. The springs of Western science -- The migration of ideas -- A primer in Aristotelian natural philosophy -- Natural philosophy in Oxford -- The astronomers -- The astrologers -- Instruments of thought -- Albion -- Epilogue
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A biography of Richard of Wallingford, a medieval abbot, mathematician and scientist who built a pioneering astronomical and astrological clock
Richard,1292-1336
Astronomers-- Great Britain, Biography
Clock and watch makers-- Great Britain, Biography
Clock and watch making-- Great Britain-- History-- To 1500
Clocks and watches-- Great Britain-- History-- To 1500