God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / John North.
Pubblicazione:
London : Continuum, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Illustrations. Preface. Pt. 1. Foundations: 1. Eclipse 2. The black monks 3. Wallingford 4. Oxford 5. An astronomer among theologians 6. The state of the kingdom. Pt. 2. An Abbot's rule: 7. A new abbot 8. Reprove, persuade, rebuke 9. The visitor visited 10 The litigious abbot. Pt. 3. Time and the man: 11. Builders and clockmakers 12. Horologe and history 13. The St Albans clock 14. Machina mundi 15. legacy. Pt. 4. The springs of western science: 16. The migration of ides 17. A primer in Aristotelian natural philosophy 18. Natural philosophy in Oxford 19. The astronomers 20. The astrologers 21. Instruments of thought 22. Albion 23. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index
