European Clocks and Watches in the Near East
Author | : Otto Kurz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Otto Kurz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Daniel A. Stolz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107196337 |
This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.
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
Author | : Daniel Savoy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2017-12-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004355790 |
An interdisciplinary group of scholars evaluates the global discourse on Early Modern European art.
Author | : Betül İpşirli Argit |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108488366 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-10-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110777223 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521769272 |
Concentrating on the Habsburg Empire, this book examines the creation of cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe.