Time Machine : Rostock Astronomical Clock of 1472 : 550 years - and it keeps ticking.

Mitschke, Fedor

Published by Rostock, 2022

About this Item

55 pages, 30 x 21 cm, author's signature on front leaf, otherwise fine. - - Contents: A Most Unusual Clock. - 1. General Information: The City of Rostock. - The Church of St. Mary in Rostock. - The Astronomical Clock. - - 2. How to Read the Astronomical Clock: The Clock Disk. - The Calendar Disk. - Automaton and Music Work. - Further Design Elements. - The Clock's Inner Workings: The Invisible Part. - Time Span for Which the Calendar Data are Good. - On what day of the week was I born? - - 3. Time and Time Units: What is Time? - How to Measure Time. - Time Units for the Calendar. - The Dilemma of All Calendars. - Time Units for Partitioning of the Day. - - 4. The Development of Our Present Calendar: The Julian Calendar. - The Gregorian Calendar Reform. - Is there a More Accurate Way? - What About a Decimal System for Time? - Some Calendar Peculiarities. - Computation of the Date of Easter. - - 5. The Development of Clocks: Early Methods of Assessing Time. - Mechanical Clocks. - Electrons and Atoms. - Why Ever More Accuracy? - - 6. The Baltic Sea, The Hanseatic League, and a Master Clockmaker: The Hanseatic League. - The Urban Community. - The Clockmaker. - - 7. Reference Materials.

Seller Inventory # 02945

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time Machine : Rostock Astronomical Clock of 1472 : 550 years - and it keeps ticking.
• Publisher: Rostock
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Signed: Signatur des Verfassers
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia