Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata, 1550-1650
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Book Details
ISBN / ASIN0882021885
ISBN-139780882021881
Sales Rank989,737
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Depicts the golden age of German clockmaking, 1550-1650, in fourteen contributions from European and American scholars. There are over 200 illustrations and technical drawings, detailed physical descriptions of the finest clocks, automata and mechanical celestial globes surviving from the time. This volume, along with the exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology, offers the most comprehensive examination of the German Renaissance clock ever undertaken. From the founding of the clockmaker's guilds to the eventual shifting of the craft's supremacy from German-speaking Central Europe to Holland and England after the Thirty Year's War, it both defines and conclusively treats a significant episode of horological history.
