A General History of Horology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 June 2022
- ISBN 9780198863915
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages776 pages
- Size 332x255x79 mm
- Weight 3036 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 220 colour photographs 216
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Horology: The word
Hour Systems
Time measurement in Antiquity
India and the Far East: dials, water-clocks, fire-clocks
India
China to 1900
Modern China
Japan
Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Sun-dials and water-clocks in Byzantium and Islam
Time-reckoning in the Medieval Latin world
Water-clocks and the earliest escapements
Sand-clocks, sand-glasses, and fire-clocks
Public clocks: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries
The domestic clock in Europe
From the fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century
From Huygens to the end of the eighteenth century.
Watches in Europe 1600 - 1800
The Structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
The development of the sundial fourteenth to twentieth centuries
Clocks as astronomical models
Planetary clocks to the end of the eighteenth century
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Musical and automaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices
The quest for precision in astronomy and navigation
Decimal Time
Industrial manufacture: clock and watch-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The mixed fortunes of Britain
American horology and its global reach
The horological endeavour in France
The challenge of the Swiss and their competitors
Developing the German industry
A case-study in standardisation: la pendule de Paris
Precision attained: chronometers and regulators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times
Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies
Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Wrist-watches from their origins to the twenty-first century
Electricity, horology, and networked time
Women in horology
The keeping of clocks and watches: maintenance, repair and restoration
Accessories in horology
Applications of clockwork
Orreries and planetaria
Timers and telescope drives
Metronomes
Car clocks
Watchmans' clocks
Roasting jacks
Horology verbalised; horology visualised
The Literature of horology
Collecting and writing the history of horology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
