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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格式 PDF ● 网页 464 ● ISBN 9780826444745 ● 出版者 Bloomsbury Publishing ● 发布时间 2006 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3067248 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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