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Darrera modificació: 2009-03-09
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
North, John, God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time, Londres, Hambledon & London, 2005, 432 pp., il.
- Resum
- Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God's Clockmaker 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.
- Matèries
- Història de la tècnica
Astronomia i astrologia
Matemàtica
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.hambledon.co.uk/54510.htm
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