Gods Clockmaker (e)

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- PART ONE: Foundations -- 1 Eclipse -- 2 The Black Monks -- The Order -- Federation -- The Monastery -- 3 Wallingford -- The Borough -- Son of the Smithy -- The Priory -- 4 Oxford -- The Beginnings of the University -- Grosseteste: The Forming of the University -- Theology and the Sciences -- Gloucester College -- Rival Institutions -- Nine Long Years and More -- 5 An Astronomer Among Theologians -- Cause for Regret -- Oxford Theologians Abroad -- 'Mathematical Pursuits' -- Astrology and the Calendar -- New Instruments: Rectangulus and Albion -- The Astrolabe -- 6 The State of the Kingdom -- The Fall of Edward II -- Edward III and the Downfall of Isabella -- PART TWO: An Abbot's Rule -- 7 A New Abbot -- Goliath -- Avignon -- Why Avignon? -- Pope John XXII (1316-34) -- The Road -- The Throne of Costly Grace -- Fortune's Wheel -- 8 Reprove, Persuade, Rebuke -- Discordant Notes -- A Visitation -- The Abbot's Dues -- The Leper -- A Good Shepherd? -- Rights -- 9 The Visitor Visited -- An Abbot in Parliament -- Balancing the Books -- Enemies and Friends in Adversity -- 10 The Litigious Abbot -- Justice Within Whose Law? -- The Mills of St Albans -- Hand-Mills and Liberties -- Morality and Bloodshed -- Trials by Jury -- The Men of Redbourn -- Isabella's Mill -- Mills, Malt, and Mast -- Windmills -- Unflagging Aspirations -- PART THREE: Time and the Man -- 11 Builders and Clockmakers -- The Builder -- Roger and Laurence of Stoke -- 12 Horologe and History -- Time and the Hour -- Water Clocks -- The First Cluster of Records -- Perpetual Motion -- Mechanisms and Motives -- Astronomical Motives -- Astronomical Motives Questioned -- The Mechanical Escapement's First Application? -- 13 The St Albans Clock -- The Treatise -- The Manuscripts -- The Escapement -- The Order of Invention

The St Albans Striking Mechanism -- Developments in Italy -- Richard of Wallingford as Engineer -- The Building of the Clock -- 14 Machina Mundi -- The Clock as Instrument -- Tides and Fortune -- On Reading an Astrolabe Dial -- The Sun's Variable Motion -- The Moon and Dragon -- 15 Legacy -- Time the Controller -- Time's Fell Hand -- The Man -- Dissolution and Survival -- PART FOUR: The Springs of Western Science -- 16 The Migration of Ideas -- The Latin Tradition -- From Cordoba to Western Monasteries -- Al-Khwārizmī in England -- The High Tide of Translation -- Approaches to the Greek Aristotle -- Jewish Contributions -- Parallel Worlds: Theology as Censor -- Provence and Profatius -- 17 A Primer in Aristotelian Natural Philosophy -- 18 Natural Philosophy in Oxford -- A Metaphysics of Light -- Grosseteste and Thirteenth-Century Optics -- Aristotle and Geometry -- Aristotle and Scientific System -- Rationalists, Empiricists, and God -- A New Dynamics -- A New Kinematics: The Mertonians -- The Rise and Fall of Aristotelian Science -- 19 The Astronomers -- Early Western Astronomy -- The Renaissance of the Greek Tradition -- Ptolemy's Almagest -- A Painful Climb: Student Texts -- Ptolemaic Planetary Theory -- Astronomical Tables and Techniques -- Natural Philosophy and the Astronomers -- Heaven and the Heavens -- 20 The Astrologers -- Early History -- Oxford Astrology -- Exafrenon -- 21 Instruments of Thought -- Mathematics as Instrument -- Material Instruments -- The Rectangulus -- 22 Albion -- Early Equatoria -- Tacit Geometry -- New Ways with Old Theory -- Sun, Moon, and Eclipse -- Curves for Functional Relationships -- The Fortunes of Albion -- 23 Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z