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A General History of Horology
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 fundamamental, new and original research.
World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca
The author describes how Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction ("qibla") towards Mecca and presents two highly sophisticated Mecca-centred world-maps for finding the "qibla." These recently-discovered world-maps have forced a reevaluation of Muslim achievements in mathematics and cartography.
The Sun in the Church
Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, within sight of the altar, subverted Church doctrine about the order of the universe. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, "The Sun in the Church" tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished. It describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. And it offers an enlig...
Zero Degrees
Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.
Construire le temps
Plus qu'aux systemes eux-memes, objet des investigations de la chronologie et de l'histoire des sciences, plus qu'aux modes d'"habiter le temps," objet de l'histoire de la pensee et de la culture, c'est au remaniement des traditions, au cheminement des innovations, aux influences reciproques, dans le processus d'une lente impregnation des consciences occidentales, du haut Moyen Age a nos jours, que s'attachent les treize contributions ici reunies. Ce volume reproduit a l'identique les contributions parus dans les deux livraisons de la Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des chartes, t.157, 1999.
Le 3e arrondissement : itinéraires d'histoire et d'architecture
Secteur sauvegardé du Paris des Bourbons, il a su protéger son patrimoine architectural tout en prenant un tournant dynamique. Lieu d'éducation séculaire, le quartier des Arts-et-Métiers s'y étend. Les communautés juives et asiatiques concentrent les principales activités commerciales. Le quartier des Enfants-Rouges est marqué par le poids du commerce... « Copyright Electre »
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