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Medieval Time: Timekeeping Instruments

Library and internet materials for research on aspects of Medieval time and the study of chronology.

Overview

Intended as an overview of available secondary works on non-calendrical timekeeping instruments. Grouped into the following categories:

Collected Articles
Clocks
Sundials

Collected Articles

Time in the Medieval World by Chris Humphrey (Editor); W. M. Ormrod (Editor)
Call Number: CB353 .T56 2001
In synchrony with the heavens : studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization by David A. King
Call Number: QB23 .K53 2004
Time's Pendulum: the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks by Jo Ellen Barnett
Call Number: QB209 .B25 1998

Sundials

Greek and Roman Sundials by Sharon L. Gibbs
Call Number: QB215 .G5
Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials by Catherine Eagleton
Call Number: QB215 .E116 2010
Sundials: history, theory and practice by René R. J. Rohr
Call Number: QB215 .R613
The Sun in the Church by J. L. Heilbron
Call Number: QB29 .H33 1999
Shadow on the Steps: : time measurement in ancient Israel by David Miano
Call Number: BS1199.T5 M53 2010
Le disque de Qumrân by Paul Tavardon
Call Number: QB34 .T38 2010
“The material culture of astronomy in daily life: sundials, science, and social change" by Sara Schechner
Journal for the History of Astronomy 32 (2001): 189–222.
“Vertical dials of the 5–15th centuries” by Karlheinz Schaldach
Bulletin of the British Sundial Society 96, no. 3 (1996): 32–38.

Clocks

Miniature de "Horologium Sapientiae" vers 1450 de Henrich Seuse
Bibliothèque Royale Albert, Bruxelles MS. IV, f. 111

History of the Hour: clocks and modern temporal orders by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum; Thomas Dunlap (Translator)
Call Number: QB107 .D6413 1996
Revolution in Time: clocks and the making of the modern world by David S. Landes
Call Number: TS542 .L24 1983
Time: the greatest innovator : timekeeping and time consciousness in early modern Europe by Rachel Doggett (Editor)
Call Number: QB209 .T4 1986

"An exhibition, the Folger Shakespeare Library, October 1986-March 1987"
"Changing Times: The Mechanical Clock in Late Medieval Literature. " by Nancy Bradbury and Carolyn Collette
Chaucer Review 43, no. 4 (2009): 351-375.
The pulse of time : Galileo Galilei, the determination of longitude, and the pendulum clock by Silvio A. Bedini
Call Number: QB225 .B43 1991
“Monasticism and the first mechanical clocks” by John North
in Julius T. Fraser and N. Lawrence, eds., The Study of Time, II, pp. 381–398. New York: Springer Verlag.

Meridian Line

Giovanni Cassini. Heliometer in the Church of San Petronio in Bologna (1695)

Caltech. RB-GC1695-2