You might also like

More about God's Clockmaker

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 296 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. "God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time" 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: science, technology & medicine

• Full title: God's Clockmaker
• Author: J.D. North,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9781852855710
• ISBN: 1852855711
• ID: 04405393
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 234 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2006

Trending among others

---

---

---