The Clockwork universe : German clocks and automata, 1550-1650
1980
681.113 C643 1980
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Title
The Clockwork universe : German clocks and automata, 1550-1650
Variant Title
German clocks and automata, 1550-1650|West als Uhr
Published
Washington : New York : Smithsonian Institution ; N. Watson Academic Publications, 1980.
Description
ix, 321 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Call Number
681.113 C643 1980
System Control No.
(OCoLC)06379367
Note
German title: West als Uhr.
Catalog of an exhibition held in Munich, Germany, April 15 to Sept. 30, 1980, and in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 1980 to Feb. 15, 1981, and organized by the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A mechanical symbol for an authoritarian world -- The clock as intellectual artifact -- The mechanical clock and the scientific revolution -- Propagatio fidei per scientias: Jesuit gifts to the Chinese court -- The role of clocks in the imperial Honoraria for the Turks -- Astrolabe clock faces -- The Augsburg clockmakers' craft -- Jost Bürgi, or on innovation -- To finance a clock: an example of patronage in the 16th century -- History and mathematical analysis of the fusee -- The clock and its base -- Automatic music: the Bidermann-Langenbucher lawsuit -- Telling time without a clock -- Counting the hours in community life of the 16th century.
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Catalog of an exhibition held in Munich, Germany, April 15 to Sept. 30, 1980, and in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 1980 to Feb. 15, 1981, and organized by the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A mechanical symbol for an authoritarian world -- The clock as intellectual artifact -- The mechanical clock and the scientific revolution -- Propagatio fidei per scientias: Jesuit gifts to the Chinese court -- The role of clocks in the imperial Honoraria for the Turks -- Astrolabe clock faces -- The Augsburg clockmakers' craft -- Jost Bürgi, or on innovation -- To finance a clock: an example of patronage in the 16th century -- History and mathematical analysis of the fusee -- The clock and its base -- Automatic music: the Bidermann-Langenbucher lawsuit -- Telling time without a clock -- Counting the hours in community life of the 16th century.
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