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Author(s): Foulkes Nicholas

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 122.50 MB

Year: 2024

Language: english

SKU: EB-43685606 Category: Science (General) - Scientific-popular Tag: Foulkes Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 1471170640
ISBN 13: 9781471170645
Author: Foulkes Nicholas

‘Downright fascinating…indispensable reading’ Daily Telegraph ‘Nicholas Foulkes’ excellent…book is beautifully illustrated. Captivating’ Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes’ lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a workable train timetable across the vast, open expanse of the United States have inspired new developments. In Time Tamed, Nicholas Foulkes reveals how we have done this by focusing on some of the most significant developments in timekeeping across the ages. He also highlights the most stunning and lavish clocks and watches in history – from Big Ben to Rolex – for telling the time has never been purely about function, but also about design. The book is filled with remarkable tales, from the 14th century monk in St Albans who created one of the first mechanical clocks to the Holy Roman Emperor who built a clock into an automated ship that fired a cannon to summon guests to dinner. More recently, there was the Surrey woman who used a Napoleonic era watch to ‘deliver’ the accurate time to London shopkeepers in the wartime era of Churchill, or the Swiss denture maker who solved a tricky problem for the Indian Raj’s polo players. Time Tamed is a book you’ll want to spend many hours enjoying.

Time Tamed 1st Edition Table of contents:

The Bare Bones of Time: Ishango Bone – Palaeolithic Era
Pit Stop: Warren Field Calendar – Mesolithic Era
A Bucket with a Hole: The Karnak Clepsydra
Back to the Future: The Antikythera Mechanism
The Ides of March: Julian Calendar
The Twilight of Antiquity: The Great Clock of Gaza
The Wonders of the East: Charlemagne and the Caliph’s Clock
The Missing Link: Su Song’s Celestial Clock
The Elephant in the Shopping Mall: The Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari
A Mechanical Stairway to Heaven: Richard of Wallingford’s Astronomical Clock
The Mechanical Cock that Crowed: The Marvel of Strasbourg
The Lost Wonder of the Renaissance: De’Dondi’s Astrarium
The Timepiece Becomes Personal: The Nuremberg ‘Pomander’ Watch
The Howard Hughes of the Holy Roman Empire: The Moving Mechanical Musical Boat Clock of Emperor Rudolf II
Buried Treasure: The Emerald Watch of the Cheapside Hoard
Japan’s Moveable Hours: Wadokei
The Search for Longitude: Harrison’s Marine Chronometer
Time with a Bang: Canon Solaire
American Polymath: Franklin
Guillotines and Grand Complications: Marie Antoinette’s Breguet
Time Delivered to Your Door: The Belville Chronometer
The Most Famous Clock in the World: Big Ben
The Missed Train Changed Time: Meridian Time
Time Flies: The Cartier Santos
The First Sports Watch: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso
The Most Expensive Watch in the World: The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
Jet Set Go: Rolex GMT-Master
The Moon’s Official Wristwatch: Omega Speedmaster