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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities
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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contient des informations sur les astrolabes.
Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162084X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Time Restored written by Jonathan Betts and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From antique clocks to scientific mysteries, from typewriters to the first systematic study of the Loch Ness Monster, Gould studied and published on them all. With the title The Stargazer, Gould was an early broadcaster on the BBC's Children's Hour when, with his encyclopaedic knowledge, he became known as The Man Who Knew Everything. Not surprisingly, he was also part of that elite group on BBC radio who formed The Brains Trust, giving on-the-spot answers to all manner of wide ranging and difficult questions. With his wide learning and photographic memory, Gould awed a national audience, becoming one of the era's radio celebrities. During the 1920s Gould restored the complex and highly significant marine timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776), and wrote the unsurpassed classic, The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development. Today he is virtually unknown, his horological contributions scarcely mentioned in Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude. The TV version of Longitude, in which Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, did at least introduce Gould's name to a wider public. Gould suffered terrible bouts of depression, resulting in a number of nervous breakdowns. These, coupled with his obsessive and pedantic nature, led to a scandalously-reported separation from his wife and cost him his family, his home, his job, and his closest friends. In this first-ever biography of Rupert Gould, Jonathan Betts, the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Senior Horologist, has given us a compelling account of a talented but flawed individual. Using hitherto unknown personal journals, the family's extensive collection of photographs, and the polymath's surviving records and notes, Betts tells the story of how Gould's early life, his naval career, and his celebrity status came together as this talented Englishman restored part of Britain's - and the world's - most important technical heritage: John Harrison's marine timekeepers.
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Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Optician and Scientific Instrument Maker written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Elena De La Iglesia
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
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Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The International Catalogue of Catalogues written by Maria Elena De La Iglesia and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gianenrico Bernasconi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110625032
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Goldsmiths Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273488
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Roman Portable Sundials written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talbert investigates miniature sundials which can be adjusted for the owner's whereabouts. They incorporate a list of locations and latitudes for ready reference, data that offers insight into Romans' worldviews. To some perhaps, these sundials were primarily symbols of scientific awareness as well as imperial mastery of time and space.
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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book English Mechanics and the World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book English Mechanic and World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019151117X
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Marine Chronometers at Greenwich written by Jonathan Betts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of catalogues of instruments in the collections of the National Maritime Museum. Housed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — the 'home of time' and the Prime Meridian of the world — this extraordinary collection, which includes the celebrated marine timekeepers by John Harrison (1693-1776), is generally considered to be the finest of its kind in existence. The book is however much more than just a catalogue, and includes an accessible and engaging history of the chronometer, revealing why these instruments were important in our scientific and cultural history, and explaining, in simple terms, how they worked and were used. A comprehensive Glossary and Bibliography are included to ensure any technicalities are explained and that the reader has suggestions for useful 'further reading'. Over 480 photographs and illustrations, including many fine macro-photographs and line drawings, illustrate the 'jewel-like' beauty of the chronometer's construction and explain the function and subtleties of its mechanism. A chapter on 'How the Chronometer was Made', describes the fine sub-division of labour used to create these special machines, from bare metal, right up to delivery on board ship, and brief biographies of the makers tell the human story behind this important nineteenth-century industry. Another chapter, 'The Evolution of the Chronometer', aimed at collectors, historians and curators, provides clearly structured information on assessing and dating the chronometer, something many find difficult. And, for the dedicated specialist, there is extensive tabulated data on the technical structure of this important collection, a unique resource for future research.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gloria Clifton
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers, 1550-1851 written by Gloria Clifton and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication lists over 5,000 scientific instrument makers and retailers working in the British Isles, together with a further 10,000 names of apprentices and associates. The directory transforms our understanding of the history of the scientific instrument-making trades in Britain. Each entry includes estimated working dates, specific trades, addresses, training, apprentices, types of instruments made and brief biographical details. As such this volume not only provides essential information for collectors, dealers, museum curators and scholars, but it will also have much to offer economic, social and family historians, with its evidence about master-apprentice links, trade connections and family relationships.
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450734
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Author : Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198863918
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.
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Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
