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BL
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692470
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b514659
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| Main Entry
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North, John David
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| Title & Author
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God's clockmaker : : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time /\ John North
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Hambledon and London,, 2005
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xvii, 441 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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1852854510
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: 1852855711
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: 9781852854515
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: 9781852855710
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Foundations -- Eclipse -- The Black Monks -- Wallingford -- Oxford -- An astronomer among theologians -- The state of the kingdom -- pt. 2. An abbot's rule -- A new abbot -- Reprove, persuade, rebuke -- The visitor visited -- The litigious abbot -- pt. 3. Time and the man -- Builders and clockmakers -- Horologe and history -- The St Albans clock -- Machina mundi -- Legacy -- pt. 4. The springs of Western science -- The migration of ideas -- A primer in Aristotelian natural philosophy -- Natural philosophy in Oxford -- The astronomers -- The astrologers -- Instruments of thought -- Albion -- Epilogue
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| Abstract
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A biography of Richard of Wallingford, a medieval abbot, mathematician and scientist who built a pioneering astronomical and astrological clock
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Richard,1292-1336
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Astronomers-- Great Britain, Biography
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Clock and watch makers-- Great Britain, Biography
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Clock and watch making-- Great Britain-- History-- To 1500
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Clocks and watches-- Great Britain-- History-- To 1500
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Time
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Klokken
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Klokkenmakers
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Tijdmeting
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| Dewey Classification
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681.113092
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| LC Classification
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TS544.8.W35N67 2005
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