God's Clockmaker

God's Clockmaker
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9780826439628
ISBN-13 : 0826439624
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Book Synopsis God's Clockmaker by : John North

Download or read book God's Clockmaker written by John North and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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