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The Changing Face of Early Modern Time, 1550–1770

Author : Jane Desborough
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030153533
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Early Modern Time, 1550–1770 written by Jane Desborough and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use. Between 1550 and the emergence of a standard format in 1770, dials represented combinations of calendrical, lunar and astronomical information using multiple concentric rings, subsidiary dials and apertures. Change was gradual, but significant. Over the course of eight chapters and with reference to thirty-five exceptional images, this book unlocks the meaning embedded within these early combinations. The true significance of dial change can only be fully understood by comparing dials with printed paper sources such as almanacs, diagrams and craft pamphlets. Clock and watch makers drew on traditional communication methods, utilised different formats to generate trust in their work, and tried to be help users in different contexts. The calendar, lunar and astronomical functions were useful as a memory prompt for astrology up until the mid-late seventeenth century. After the decline of this practice, the three functions continued to be useful for other purposes, but eventually declined.

By the Numbers

Author : Jessica Marie Otis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197608779
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book By the Numbers written by Jessica Marie Otis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--

About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

Author : David Rooney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867943
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks written by David Rooney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Author : Marcus Tomalin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000042081
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830 written by Marcus Tomalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.

The Estate of Major General Claude Martin at Lucknow

Author : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527561348
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Estate of Major General Claude Martin at Lucknow written by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique glimpse into a European household in 18th century India. Claude Martin was an entrepreneurial Frenchman who settled in Lucknow, capital of the rich Muslim state of Awadh (Oudh). The book presents the inventory of his houses here for the first time, together with the catalogue of books from his library. It gathers together six experts to examine Martin’s numerous possessions, and discuss his paintings, silverware, jewellery, textiles, weapons, carriages, boats and hot air balloons. His collection of scientific items imported from the best European instrument makers reveals his practical experiments with electricity and astronomy, while his buildings exploited hydraulic engineering to keep them cool. This book will appeal to readers fascinated by the introduction of Enlightenment ideas into post-Mughal India and the rise of a ‘common soldier’ to the highest ranks of the East India Company. Childless himself, Martin left money to found La Martinière schools in India and France.

Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University

Author : Richard Kirwan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317059204
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University written by Richard Kirwan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the same time, the universities of Europe became increasingly orientated towards serving the territorial state, guided by a humanistic approach to learning which stressed its social and political utility. It was in these contexts that the notion of the scholar as a distinct social category gained a foothold and the status of the scholarly group as a social elite was firmly established. University scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in this period. It explores the reasons for this growing self-consciousness among scholars, and the effects of its expression - social and political, desired and real.

Heaven and Earth United

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381430
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth United written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising that almost every culture has entertained the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants, Heaven and Earth United explores the ways in which scientific instruments have been used for astrological purposes.

The Continuity of Feudal Power

Author : Tommaso Astarita
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893169
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Continuity of Feudal Power written by Tommaso Astarita and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Continuity of Feudal Power is the first modern study of an aristocratic family in the kingdom of Naples, the largest Italian state, during the period of Spanish rule, 1503-1707.

Material Histories of Time

Author : Gianenrico Bernasconi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110625032
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Material Histories of Time by : Gianenrico Bernasconi

Download or read book Material Histories of Time written by Gianenrico Bernasconi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one hand, and research that is concerned with the examination of the cultures and uses of time on the other hand. Material Histories of Time opens a dialogue between these two approaches by taking monumental clocks, table clocks, portable watches, carriage clocks, and other forms of timekeeping as the starting point of a joint reflection of specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time. The contributions range from the apparition of the first timekeeping mechanical systems in the Middle Ages to the first evidence of industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Crime, Histoire et Sociétés, 2005/2

Author : International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600010542
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Crime, Histoire et Sociétés, 2005/2 written by International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Bodies

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838362
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Urban Bodies written by Carole Rawcliffe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during "the golden age of bacteria". Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor."--Provided by publisher.

The Invention of Sustainability

Author : Paul Warde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108663699
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Sustainability written by Paul Warde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry, climate, the sciences of the soil and of life itself, this book sets out how new knowledge and metrics led people to imagine both new horizons for progress, but also the possibility of collapse. In the nineteenth century, anxieties about sustainability, often driven by science, proliferated in debates about contemporary and historical empires and the American frontier. The fear of progress undoing itself confronted society with finding ways to live with and manage nature.

The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : Landmark Law Cases & American
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by Landmark Law Cases & American. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the dramatic story of these landmark trials.

A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean

Author : Robert Clines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485340
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean written by Robert Clines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a Jewish-born Catholic priest's effort to prove he was Catholic to anyone who doubted him, including himself.

Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

Author : Hamish Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139463772
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century written by Hamish Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how 'culture', defined in the widest sense, was exploited during the 'long eighteenth century' to buttress authority in all its forms and how politics infused culture. Individual essays explore topics ranging from the military culture of Central Europe through the political culture of Germany, France and Great Britain, music, court intrigue and diplomatic practice, religious conflict and political ideas, the role of the Enlightenment, to the very new dispensations which prevailed during and after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic watershed. The book will be essential reading for all scholars of eighteenth-century European history.

Americans in Egypt, 1770-1915

Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078646304X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Americans in Egypt, 1770-1915 written by Cassandra Vivian and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of Americans have long been absent from studies of modern Egypt. Most scholars assume that Americans were either not in Egypt in significant numbers during the nineteenth century or had little of importance to say. This volume shows that neither was the case by introducing and relating the experiences and attitudes of 15 American personalities who worked, lived, or traveled in Egypt from the 1770s to the commencement of World War I. Often in their own words, explorers, consuls, tourists, soldiers, missionaries, artists, scientists, and scholars offer a rare American perspective on everyday Egyptian life and provide a new perspective on many historically significant events. The stories of these individuals and their sojourns not only recount the culture and history of Egypt but also convey the domination of the country by European powers and the support for Egypt by a young American nation.

Early Modern Capitalism

Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134604416
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Capitalism written by Maarten Prak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.