A General History of Horology – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198863915,0198863918, 9780192609366, 019260936X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 019260936X
• ISBN-13: 9780192609366
• Author: Anthony Turner, James Nye, Jonathan Betts

Table contents:

1. Time measurement in Antiquity

2. India and the Far East: dials, water-clocks, fire-clocks

3. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

4. Public clocks: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries

5. The domestic clock in Europe

6. Watches in Europe 1600 – 1800

7. The Structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

8. The development of the sundial fourteenth to twentieth centuries

9. Clocks as astronomical models

10. Musical and automaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices

11. The quest for precision in astronomy and navigation

12. Decimal Time

13. Industrial manufacture: clock and watch-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

14. Precision attained: chronometers and regulators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

15. Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times

16. Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies

17. Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

18. Wrist-watches from their origins to the twenty-first century

19. Electricity, horology, and networked time

20. Women in horology

21. The keeping of clocks and watches: maintenance, repair and restoration

22. Accessories in horology

23. Applications of clockwork

24. Horology verbalised; horology visualised

25. The Literature of horology

26. Collecting and writing the history of horology

27. Glossary

28. Bibliography

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