General History of Horology

General History of Horology

Nye, James; Turner, Anthony; Betts, Jonathan

Oxford University Press

06/2022

776

Dura

Inglês

9780198863915

15 a 20 dias

3036

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Introduction
Horology: The word
Hour Systems
1: Jerome Bonnin: Time measurement in Antiquity
2: India and the Far East: dials, water-clocks, fire-clocks
S. R. Sarma: India
David Chang: China to 1900
Ron Good, Jon Ward: Modern China
Katsuhiro Sasaki: Japan
3: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Anthony Turner: Sun-dials and water-clocks in Byzantium and Islam
Mario Arnaldi: Time-reckoning in the Medieval Latin world
Sebastian Whitestone: Water-clocks and the earliest escapements
Anthony Turner: Sand-clocks, sand-glasses, and fire-clocks
4: Marisa Addomine: Public clocks: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries
5: The domestic clock in Europe
Dietrich Matthes: From the fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century
Wim van Klaveren: From Huygens to the end of the eighteenth century.
6: David Thompson: Watches in Europe 1600 - 1800
7: Anthony Turner: The Structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
8: Denis Savoie: The development of the sundial fourteenth to twentieth centuries
9: Clocks as astronomical models
Karsten Gaulk, Michael Korey, Samuel Gessner: Planetary clocks to the end of the eighteenth century
Denis Roegel: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
10: Sharon Kerman: Musical and automaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices
11: Jonathan Betts: The quest for precision in astronomy and navigation
12: Anthony Turner: Decimal Time
13: Industrial manufacture: clock and watch-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
James Nye: The mixed fortunes of Britain
Michael Edidin: American horology and its global reach
Joelle Mauerhan: The horological endeavour in France
Johann Boilat: The challenge of the Swiss and their competitors
Sibylle Gluch: Developing the German industry
Francoise Collanges: A case-study in standardisation: la pendule de Paris
14: Jonathan Betts: Precision attained: chronometers and regulators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
15: Catherine Cardinal: Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times
16: Roger Smith: Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies
17: Marisa Addomine: Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
18: David Boettcher: Wrist-watches from their origins to the twenty-first century
19: James Nye, David Rooney: Electricity, horology, and networked time
20: Joelle Mauerhan: Women in horology
21: Jonathan Betts: The keeping of clocks and watches: maintenance, repair and restoration
22: Estelle Fallet: Accessories in horology
23: Applications of clockwork
Jim Bennett, Anthony Turner: Orreries and planetaria
Paolo Brenni: Timers and telescope drives
Anthony Turner: Metronomes
James Nye: Car clocks
Jonathan Betts: Watchmans' clocks
Anthony Turner: Roasting jacks
24: Christina Faraday: Horology verbalised; horology visualised
25: Bernhard Huber: The Literature of horology
26: Anthony Turner: Collecting and writing the history of horology
27: Glossary
28: Bibliography
Index