Arabic Water-clocks
Title | Arabic Water-clocks PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Routledge Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Clocks and watches |
ISBN |
Arabic and Islamic Water Clocks
Title | Arabic and Islamic Water Clocks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
1001 Inventions
Title | 1001 Inventions PDF eBook |
Author | Salim T. S. Al-Hassani |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1426209347 |
Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.
On the Construction of Water-clocks
Title | On the Construction of Water-clocks PDF eBook |
Author | Archimedes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Clock and watch making |
ISBN |
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Title | The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices PDF eBook |
Author | P. Hill |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 1975-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789401025751 |
To judge by the dictum of al-Ja~i?: (d. A.D. 869), 'Wisdom has descended upon these three: the brain of the Byzantine, the hands of the Chinese, and the tongue of the Arab', in the great age of the
Arabic Water-clocks
Title | Arabic Water-clocks PDF eBook |
Author | دونالد هيل |
Publisher | |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Water clocks |
ISBN |
Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Title | Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004416293 |
"Clock time", with all its benefits and anxieties, is often viewed as a "modern" phenomenon, but ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures also had tools for marking and measuring time within the day and wrestled with challenges of daily time management. This book brings together for the first time perspectives on the interplay between short-term timekeeping technologies and their social contexts in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Its contributions denaturalize modern-day concepts of clocks, hours, and temporal frameworks; describe some of the timekeeping solutions used in antiquity; and illuminate the diverse factors that affected how individuals and communities structured their time.