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Author : Otto Kurz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010527961
Author : Clare Vincent,Jan Hendrik Leopold,Elizabeth Sullivan
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588395795
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Author : Otto Kurz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000650277
Author : Libuše Urešová
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 1850520283
Describes the history of time pieces from the primitive sundial to the modern watch, focusing on the wheel work clock and its development from the ornate clock of seventeenth-century France to the alarm clocks of the 1900s
Author : Reinhard Eisendle,Suna Suner,Hans Ernst Weidinger
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783990125519
Diplomats had multiple tasks: not only negotiating with the representatives of other states, but also mediating culture and knowledge, and not least elaborating reports on their observations of politics, society, and culture. Culture, according to the studies featured in this book, is defined as a complex sphere including aspects like systems of communication, literature, music, arts, education, and the creation of knowledge. This edition containing contributions from six conferences held in Vienna and Istanbul by the Don Juan Archiv Wien focuses on the complex diplomatic and cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from the time of the early embassies to Istanbul up to "Tanzimat".
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
Author : Daniel A. Stolz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196339
This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.
Author : Daniel Savoy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004355798
An interdisciplinary group of scholars evaluates the global discourse on Early Modern European art.
Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488365
The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources
Author : Uri M. Kupferschmidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110777222
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between “small” and “big” technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many “small” Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willingly acquired by the agency of individual users elsewhere. In a few cases, however, the inventions had to be adapted, or were overstepped, and even delayed. Some were adopted as social markers or status symbols only by elites who could afford them. Processes of adoption and diffusion therefore differed according to cultural settings, preferences, and needs. Social and cultural historians, and social scientists, not only of the Middle East, will find in this collection of essays a new approach to the impact of Western technological inventions on the Middle East.
Author : Carina L. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769273
Concentrating on the Habsburg Empire, this book examines the creation of cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe.
Author : Toby E. Huff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139495356
Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.
Author : Avner Wishnitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226257723
Reading Clocks, Alla Turca explores the technological and social aspects of Ottoman temporal culture, where religious and secular powers competed and colluded for authority, the army tried to rationalize its systems of training and communication, and schoolboys complained about how long classes were. The conflicts that played out on the field of temporal systems were not along the axes one might expect, with secular, urban, rationalist, modernizing, and Europeanizing forces arrayed against rural, traditional, religious, and nationalist people and parties. Rather, religious institutions saw the rationalization of temporal culture as a way to extend their authority (the muezzin s call to prayer was the traditional way of counting the hours of the day, after all), and urban elites proclaimed their nationalism and their religiosity by their watches, both timepiece and jewelry. The image of Europe was, in a mirror of European Orientalism, deployed as both a rationalist model to be emulated (by, for example, the military) and a negative model of lazy and late aristocratic carelessness (by government administrators). Exploring sources as varied as lyric poetry, military manuals, school and military memoirs, and ferry timetables, Avner Wishnitzer lays out the full richness of Ottoman temporal culture in the nineteenth century."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : UCAL:B2885508
Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271081496
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
