| 书目名称 | The Changing Face of Early Modern Time, 1550–1770 | | 编辑 | Jane Desborough | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores the changing use of clocks and watches from 1550-1770 to offer new insights into early modern perceptions of time.Focuses on the design of dials, showing how their shifting functions and appe | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use. Between 1550 and the emergence of a standard format in 1770, dials represented combinations of calendrical, lunar and astronomical information using multiple concentric rings, subsidiary dials and apertures. Change was gradual, but significant. Over the course of eight chapters and with reference to thirty-five exceptional images, this book unlocks the meaning embedded within these early combinations. The true significance of dial change can only be fully understood by comparing dials with printed paper sources such as almanacs, diagrams and craft pamphlets. Clock and watch makers drew on traditional communication methods, utilised different formats to generate trust in their work, and tried to be help users in different contexts. The calendar, lunar and astronomical functions were useful as a memory prompt for astrology up until the mid-late seventeenth century. After the decline ofthis practice, the three functions continued to be useful for other purposes, but eventually declined.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Clocks; Watches; Dials; Knowledge transmission; Time-piece; Calendrical; Lunar; Astronomy; Material culture; | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15353-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-15353-3 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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