A general history of horology /
"A General History of Horology describes instruments from Antiquity to the twenty-first century used for the finding and measurement of time. In geographical scope it ranges from the Far East to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Time measurement in antiquity / Jérôme Bonnin
- India and the Far East / S. R. Sarma
- Late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Anthony Turner
- Public clocks from the htirteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Marisa Addomine
- The domestic clock in Europe / Dietrich Matthes
- The domestic clock in Europe / Dietrich Matthes
- Watches, 1500-1800 / David Thompson
- The structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Anthony Turner
- The development of sundials: fourteenth to twentieth centuries / Denis Savoie
- Clocks as astronomical models / Karsten Gaulke and others
- Musical and atomaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices / Sharon Kerman
- The quest for precision: astronomy and navigation / Jonathan Betts
- Decimal time / Anthony Turner
- Clock- and watchmaking from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries: industrials manufacture and worldwide trade / James Nye
- Precision attained: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jonathan Betts
- Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times / Catherine Cardinal
- Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies / Roger Smith
- Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Marisa Addomine
- Wristwatches from their origins to the twenty-first century / David Boettcher
- Electricity, horology, and networked time / James Nye and David Rooney
- Women in horology / Joëlle Mauerhan
- Keeping clocks and watches: maintenance, repair, and restoration / Jonathan Betts
- Accessories in horology / Estelle Fallet
- Applications of clockwork / Sharon Erickson Nepstad
- Horology verbalized, horology visualized / Christina J. Faraday
- The literature of horology / Bernhard Huber
- Collecting and writing the history of horology / Anthony Turner.