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Gods Clockmaker (e).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: Foundations; 1 Eclipse; 2 The Black Monks; The Order; Federation; The Monastery; 3 Wallingford; The Borough; Son of the Smithy; The Priory; 4 Oxford; The Beginnings of the University; Grosseteste: The Forming of the University; Theology and the Sciences; Gloucester College; Rival Institutions; Nine Long Years and More; 5 An Astronomer Among Theologians; Cause for Regret; Oxford Theologians Abroad; 'Mathematical Pursuits'; Astrology and the Calendar; New Instruments: Rectangulus and Albion; The Astrolabe; 6 The State of the Kingdom.
- The Fall of Edward IIEdward III and the Downfall of Isabella; PART TWO: An Abbot's Rule; 7 A New Abbot; Goliath; Avignon; Why Avignon?; Pope John XXII (1316-34); The Road; The Throne of Costly Grace; Fortune's Wheel; 8 Reprove, Persuade, Rebuke; Discordant Notes; A Visitation; The Abbot's Dues; The Leper; A Good Shepherd?; Rights; 9 The Visitor Visited; An Abbot in Parliament; Balancing the Books; Enemies and Friends in Adversity; 10 The Litigious Abbot; Justice Within Whose Law?; The Mills of St Albans; Hand-Mills and Liberties; Morality and Bloodshed; Trials by Jury; The Men of Redbourn.
- Isabella's MillMills, Malt, and Mast; Windmills; Unflagging Aspirations; PART THREE: Time and the Man; 11 Builders and Clockmakers; The Builder; Roger and Laurence of Stoke; 12 Horologe and History; Time and the Hour; Water Clocks; The First Cluster of Records; Perpetual Motion; Mechanisms and Motives; Astronomical Motives; Astronomical Motives Questioned; The Mechanical Escapement's First Application?; 13 The St Albans Clock; The Treatise; The Manuscripts; The Escapement; The Order of Invention; The St Albans Striking Mechanism; Developments in Italy; Richard of Wallingford as Engineer.
- The Building of the Clock14 Machina Mundi; The Clock as Instrument; Tides and Fortune; On Reading an Astrolabe Dial; The Sun's Variable Motion; The Moon and Dragon; 15 Legacy; Time the Controller; Time's Fell Hand; The Man; Dissolution and Survival; PART FOUR: The Springs of Western Science; 16 The Migration of Ideas; The Latin Tradition; From Cordoba to Western Monasteries; Al-Khwārizmī in England; The High Tide of Translation; Approaches to the Greek Aristotle; Jewish Contributions; Parallel Worlds: Theology as Censor; Provence and Profatius; 17 A Primer in Aristotelian Natural Philosophy.
- 18 Natural Philosophy in OxfordA Metaphysics of Light; Grosseteste and Thirteenth-Century Optics; Aristotle and Geometry; Aristotle and Scientific System; Rationalists, Empiricists, and God; A New Dynamics; A New Kinematics: The Mertonians; The Rise and Fall of Aristotelian Science; 19 The Astronomers; Early Western Astronomy; The Renaissance of the Greek Tradition; Ptolemy's Almagest; A Painful Climb: Student Texts; Ptolemaic Planetary Theory; Astronomical Tables and Techniques; Natural Philosophy and the Astronomers; Heaven and the Heavens; 20 The Astrologers; Early History.