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| Titolo: | A general history of horology / edited by Anthony Turner, James Nye, Jonathan Betts. |
| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : Oxford university press, 2022. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XV, 756 p. : ill. ; 32cm |
| Note: | In custodia |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of contributors. Introduction. 1. Time measurement in antiquity / Jérôme Bonnin 2. India and the Far East / S.R. Sarma ... [et al.] 3. Late antiquity and Middle Ages / Anthony Turner, Mario Arnaldi, Sebastian Whitestone 4. Public clocks from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries / Marisa Addomine 5. The domestic clock in Europe / Dietrich Matthes, Wim van Klaveren 6. Watches (1500-1800) / David Thompson 7. The structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Anthony Turner 8. The development of sundials: fourteenth to twentieth centuiries / Denis Savoie 9. Clocks as astronomical models / Karsten Gaulke ... [et al.] 10. Musical and automaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices / Sharon Kerman 11. The quest for precision: astronomy and navigation / Jonathan Betts 12. Decimal time / Anthony Turner 13. Clock and watch making from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries industrial manufacture and worldwide trade / James Nye ... [et al.] 14. Precision attained: the nineteenth and twentieh centuries / Jonathan Betts ... [et al.] 15. Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times / Catherine Cardinal 16. Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies / Roger Smith 17. Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Marisa Addomine 18. Wristwatches from their origins to the twenty-firts century / David Boettcher 19. Electricity, horology and networked time /nJames Nye and David Rooney 20. Women in horology / Joëlle Mauerhan 21. Keeping clocks and wathes: maintenance, repair and restoration / Jonathan Betts 22. Accessories in horology / Estelle fallet 23. Applications of clockwork / Jim Bennett ... [et al.] 24. Horology verbalized, horology visualized / Christina J. Faraday 25. The literature of horology / Bernard Huber 26. Collecting and writing the history of horology / Anthony Turner. Glossary. Bibliography & abbreviations. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780198863915 |
| Altri autori: | Turner, Anthony J., 1946-
Nye, James. Betts, Jonathan. Bonnin, Jérôme. Whitestone, Sebastian. Matthes, Dietrich. Klaveren, Wim van. Thompson, David, 1950- Savoie, Denis. Gaulke, Karsten. Kerman, Sharon. Cardinal, Catherine. Smith, Roger, sec. XX. Boettcher, David. Rooney, David. Mauerhan, Joëlle. Fallet, Estelle. Faraday, Christina J. Huber, Bernhard. Arnaldi, Mario, 1956- Addomine, Marisa, 1958- |
| Discipline: | Cronologia e Misurazione del tempo--Strumenti. |
| Keyword: | Strumenti--Misurazione del tempo. |
| Collocazione: | Cons. Strumenti F 185 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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