Main entry:

Guye, Samuel.

Title & Author:

Time & space; measuring instruments from the 15th to the 19th century, by Samuel Guye and Henri Michel. Photos. by Pierre Devinoy. [Translated by Diana Dolan in collaboration with Samuel W. Mitchell].

Publication:

New York, Praeger Publishers [1971]

Description:

289 pages illustrations, 20 color plates 26 cm

Notes:
Translation of Mesures du temps et de l'espace.
Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Clocks and watches -- Introduction -- Monumental clocks -- The Gothic clock -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The marine chronometer -- Decorative clocks -- Part 2. Ancient measuring instruments -- Measuring instruments before the Renaissance -- Terrestrial and celestial globes -- Armillary spheres and planetaria -- Astrolabes -- Sundials -- Clepsydras and hour-glasses -- Topographical instruments -- Conclusion.

Summary:

Clocks are time-keepers, that is they are mechanisms which mark the length of time passed from the moment when they were set in motion. This length of time is composed of simple elements. -- Introduction.

Subject:

Clocks and watches History.
Astronomical instruments History.
Surveying Instruments History.
Astronomie Instruments Histoire.
Arpentage Instruments Histoire.
Astronomical instruments.
Clocks and watches.
Surveying Instruments.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Michel, Henri, 1885-1981, author.
Michel, Henri, 1885-1981

Holdings:

Location: Library main 140494
Call No.: ID:86-B9987
Status: Available