Description
Product ID: | 9780198863915 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A General History of Horology |
Authors: | Author: Anthony Turner, Jonathan Betts, James Nye |
Page Count: | 776 |
Subjects: | Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, History of science, Technical design, Other manufacturing technologies, Engineering skills and trades, History of science, Technical design, Clocks, chronometers & watches (horology), Engineering skills & trades |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The text provides a general history of horology, covering time-keeping worldwide and at all periods throughout history, from antiquity (Assyria and Egypt included) to the present day. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-06-28 |