European Clocks and Watches in the Near East
Author | : Otto Kurz |
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Otto Kurz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kurz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1975-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004621970 |
Author | : Otto Kurz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Clare Vincent |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1588395790 |
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 | : Libuše Urešová |
Publisher | : Book Sales |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781850520283 |
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
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Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : Alun C. Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000571904 |
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 | : Reinhard Eisendle |
Publisher | : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3990125516 |
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 | : Harriet Rudolph |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110463210 |
The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy includes all practices in foreign policy communication in which single artifacts, samples of artifacts, or else the whole material setting of diplomatic interaction is supposed to be constitutive for creating an intended effect in terms of diplomatic objectives. The chapters of this volume focus on intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world wherein diplomatic actors of various kinds might have been confronted by a whole universe of unfamiliar artifacts and artifact-related practices. Most of them concentrate on gift giving as a diplomatic practice that offers multiple insights in the complex dynamics of diplomatic relations between representatives of culturally highly diverse political entities. In doing so, they gainfully apply different theoretical approaches of material culture as an interdisciplinary field of study to the investigation of diplomatic cultures across the globe. As a result, it becomes obvious that future research into the history of diplomacy should take into account material practices much more thoroughly than has been done before.
Author | : Catherine Pagani |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780472112081 |
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries