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A General History of Horology

Anthony Turner editor Jonathan Betts editor James Nye editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:28th Jun '22

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A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamental, new and original research.

A 'must have' for the wide audience of collectors of horology, museum curators and the libraries of their institutions, and historians of technology and instrumentation. * Peter de Clercq, Editor Antiquarian Horology *
The volume includes chapters by no less than 35 authors, each one a significant researcher in his own field. The result is a detailed history of time-keeping methods and devices from Antiquity to the present. * Giorgio Strano, Journal for the History of Astronomy 54 *

ISBN: 9780198863915

Dimensions: 332mm x 255mm x 79mm

Weight: 3036g

776 pages