Book Description
This book gives not only a detailed delineation of the artistic and technical components of the 1571–74 clock but it also presents new insighst in the astronomical indications and the underlying conceptional framework.
Author : Günther Oestmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004423478
This book gives not only a detailed delineation of the artistic and technical components of the 1571–74 clock but it also presents new insighst in the astronomical indications and the underlying conceptional framework.
Author : Heather Blackwood
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 9780988805415
Book 1 of The Time Corps Chronicles Medical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books. The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity. But even the "mad Irishman" knows that recreating a freak accident is next to impossible. With the help of a local street urchin, they discover that their problems run deeper than solely getting Felicia back to her own time. The three of them must unravel the secrets of a steam engine that operates upon a scientific impossibility and the mysteries of a grand cathedral at the center of town, where clockwork automatons perform for rapt audiences. But can a convict, a guttersnipe and an accidental time traveler prevent the destruction of a city and the death of thousands? Others are watching, and Felicia may not be the only time traveler in New Orleans.
Author : Alekseĭ Remizov
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 2885 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1465542825
At York the city did not grow up round the cathedral as at Ely or Lincoln, for York, like Rome or Athens, is an immemorial—a prehistoric—city; though like them it has legends of its foundation. Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose knowledge of Britain before the Roman occupation is not shared by our modern historians, gives the following account of its beginning:—"Ebraucus, son of Mempricius, the third king from Brute, did build a city north of Humber, which from his own name, he called Kaer Ebrauc—that is, the City of Ebraucus—about the time that David ruled in Judea." Thus, by tradition, as both Romulus and Ebraucus were descended from Priam, Rome and York are sister cities; and York is the older of the two. One can understand the eagerness of Drake, the historian of York, to believe the story. According to him the verity of Geoffrey's history has been excellently well vindicated, but in Drake's time romance was preferred to evidence almost as easily as in Geoffrey's, and he gives us no facts to support his belief, for the very good reason that he has none to give. Abandoning, therefore, the account of Geoffrey of Monmouth, we are reduced to these facts and surmises. Before the Roman invasion the valley of the Ouse was in the hands of a tribe called the Brigantes, who probably had a settlement on or near the site of the present city of York. Tools of flint and bronze and vessels of clay have been found in the neighbourhood. The Brigantes, no doubt, waged intermittent war upon the neighbouring tribes, and on the wolds surrounding the city are to be found barrows and traces of fortifications to which they retired from time to time for safety. The position of York would make it a favourable one for a settlement. It stands at the head of a fertile and pleasant valley and on the banks of a tidal river. Possibly there were tribal settlements on the eastern wolds in the neighbourhood in earlier and still more barbarous times, before the Brigantes found it safe to make a permanent home in the valley, but this is all conjecture. It is not until the Roman conquest of Britain that York enters into history.
Author : John Britton
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1836
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Wallace Nutting
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Clock and watch makers
ISBN :
Contains 250 black and white photographs of clocks, followed by a List of American Clockmakers and a List of Foreign Clockmakers. Indexed. Note publication date of 1924.
Author : Ecclesiological society
Publisher :
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1865
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Taylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385355567
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Church architecture
ISBN :
Author : Milburg F Mansfield
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2024-02-04
Category : Travel
ISBN :
THERE is no topographical division of Europe which more readily defines itself and its limits than the Rhine valley from Schaffhausen to where the river empties into the North Sea. The region has given birth to history and legend of a most fascinating character, and the manners and customs of the people who dwell along its banks are varied and picturesque. Under these circumstances it was but to be expected that architectural development should have expressed itself in a decided and unmistakable fashion. One usually makes the Rhine tour as an interlude while on the way to Switzerland or the Italian lakes, with little thought of its geographical and historical importance in connection with the development of modern Europe. It was the onward march of civilization, furthered by the Romans, through this greatest of natural highways to the north, that gave the first political and historical significance to the country of the Rhine watershed. And from that day to this the Rhenish provinces and the Low Countries bordering upon the sea have occupied a prominent place in history. There is a distinct and notable architecture, confined almost, one may say, to the borders of the Rhine, which the expert knows as Rhenish, if it can be defined at all; and which is distinct from that variety of pre-Gothic architecture known as Romanesque.