Computus

Name: Computus
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ISBN: 9780226066592

ISBN-10: 0226066592

ISBN-13: 9780226066592

Edition: 1993

Authors: Arno Borst, Andrew Winnard

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This book is a concise history of the use and interpretation of time, written by one of the foremost medievalists in Europe today. Arno Borst examines the various ways that time has been calculated by numbers and measured by instruments over several centuries, from the computus--an ancient method of determining times and dates--to the present-day computer. In a wide-ranging discussion, he analyzes the classical Greek concepts of divine, natural, and human time; the universal time of ancient Rome; the Easter cycle of the Middle Ages; the development of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; early modern chronology; and twentieth-century data processing. Borst…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Translator's Acknowledgements


List of Illustrations



The Medieval Calendar and European History



Divine, Human and Natural Time in Greek Antiquity



Universal Time and Salvation History in Roman Antiquity



Easter Cycle and Canonical Hours in the Early Middle Ages



World Eras and Days of Human Life in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries



The Church Bell and Work Time in the Ninth Century



Perception of the Moment of Respite in the High Middle Ages



Giving and Using Time in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries



Divided and Appointed Times in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries



The Confusion and Management of Calendars in the Late Middle Ages



Mechanical Clocks and Rhythmic Differences in the Fourteenth Century



The Universal Machine and Chronology in the Early Modern Period



Chronometry and Industrialization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Computers and Atomic Time in the Twentieth Century



Calculable and Allotted Time


Notes


Index