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Book Synopsis Heavenly Clockwork by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Heavenly Clockwork written by Joseph Needham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-09-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.
Book Synopsis Heavenly Clockwork by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Heavenly Clockwork written by Joseph Needham and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heavenly Clockwork by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Heavenly Clockwork written by Joseph Needham and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700 by : Carlo M. Cipolla
Download or read book Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700 written by Carlo M. Cipolla and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Book Synopsis The Clockwork of the Heavens by : Asprey & Co
Download or read book The Clockwork of the Heavens written by Asprey & Co and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Technology Volume 21 by : Graham Hollister-Short
Download or read book History of Technology Volume 21 written by Graham Hollister-Short and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Book Synopsis Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine by : Thomas F. Glick
Download or read book Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine written by Thomas F. Glick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
Book Synopsis Clockwork Princess by : Cassandra Clare
Download or read book Clockwork Princess written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
Book Synopsis On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by : Derek J. de Solla Price
Download or read book On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass written by Derek J. de Solla Price and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass" by Derek J. de Solla Price. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author :Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226155104 Total Pages :492 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (551 download)
Book Synopsis History of the Hour by : Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Download or read book History of the Hour written by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Download or read book The Clock written by Trent Duffy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of time measurement, including a short biography of John Harrison, inventor of the chronometric clock, and the effect of the clock on the Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures by : Helaine Selin
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 2428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Book Synopsis Clockwork Princess: The Mortal Instruments Prequel by : Cassandra Clare
Download or read book Clockwork Princess: The Mortal Instruments Prequel written by Cassandra Clare and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A net of shadows tightens around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy them. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. When Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever. Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in this breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.
Book Synopsis Heavenly Numbers by : Christopher Cullen
Download or read book Heavenly Numbers written by Christopher Cullen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'. It narrates the changes in ways of understanding the movements of the heavens and the heavenly bodies that took place during those four and a half centuries, and tells the stories of the institutions and individuals involved in those changes. It gives clear explanations of technical practice in observation, instrumentation, and calculation, and the steady accumulation of data over many years - but it centres on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyse and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies. It is these individuals, their observations, their calculations, and the words they left to us that provide the narrative thread that runs through this work. Throughout the book, the author gives clear translations of original material that allow the reader direct access to what the people in this book said about themselves and what they tried to do.
Book Synopsis The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by : Angela Vanhaelen
Download or read book The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam written by Angela Vanhaelen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens—where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts—shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform. Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.
Book Synopsis The Infernal Devices by : Cassandra Clare
Download or read book The Infernal Devices written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 1485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy are now together in one boxed set! Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this eBook collection of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these—in addition to darkness and danger—in the Infernal Devices trilogy, packaged in an eBook collection that includes Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess.
Author :Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell Publisher :W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 13 :9780393321753 Total Pages :596 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (217 download)
Book Synopsis Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets by : Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell
Download or read book Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets written by Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prime example of how to write a history of an immense and technical subject ....a winner.--New Scientist
