God's Clockmaker

Illustrations
PART ONE: Foundations
1 Eclipse
2 The Black Monks
  The Order
   Federation
   The Monastery
3 Wallingford
   The Borough
   Son of the Smithy
   The Priory
4 Oxford
   The Beginnings of the University
   Grosseteste: The Forming of the University
   Theology and the Sciences
   Gloucester College
   Rival Institutions
   Nine Long Years and More
5 An Astronomer Among Theologians
   Cause for Regret
   Oxford Theologians Abroad
   'Mathematical Pursuits'
   Astrology and the Calendar
   New Instruments: Rectangulus and Albion
   The Astrolabe
6 The State of the Kingdom
   The Fall of Edward II
   Edward III and the Downfall of Isabella
PART TWO: An Abbot's Rule
7 A New Abbot
   Goliath
   Avignon
   Why Avignon?
   Pope John XXII (1316-34)
   The Road
   The Throne of Costly Grace
   Fortune's Wheel
8 Reprove, Persuade, Rebuke
   Discordant Notes
   A Visitation
   The Abbot's Dues
   The Leper
   A Good Shepherd?
   Rights
9 The Visitor Visited
   An Abbot in Parliament
   Balancing the Books
   Enemies and Friends in Adversity
10 The Litigious Abbot
   Justice Within Whose Law?
   The Mills of St Albans
   Hand-Mills and Liberties
   Morality and Bloodshed
   Trials by Jury
   The Men of Redbourn
   Isabella's Mill
   Mills, Malt and Mas
   Windmills
   Unflagging Aspirations
PART THREE: Time and the Man
11 Builders and Clockmakers
   The Builder
   Roger and Laurence of Stoke
12 Horologe and History
   Time and the Hour
   Water Clocks
   The First Cluster of Records
   Perpetual Motion
   Mechanisms and Motives
   Astronomical Motives
   Astronomical Motives Questioned
   The Mechanical Escapement's First Application?
13 The St Albans Clock
   The Treatise
   The Manuscripts
   The Escapement
   The Order of Invention
   The St Albans Striking Mechanism
   Developments in Italy
   Richard of Wallingford ad Engineer
   The Building of the Clock
14  Machina Mundi
   The Clock as Instrument
   Tides and Fortune
   On Reading an Astrolabe Dial
   The Sun's Variable Motion
   The Moon and Dragon
15 Legacy
   Time the Controller
   Time's Fell Hand
   The Man
   Dissolution and Survival
PART FOUR: The Springs of Western Science
16 The Migration of Ideas
   The Latin Tradition
   From Cordoba to Western Monasteries
   Al-Khwarizimi in England
   The High Tide of Translation
   Approaches to the Greek Aristotle
   Jewish Contributions
   Parallel Worlds: Theology as Censor
   Provence and Profatius
17 A Primer in Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
18 Natural Philosophy in Oxford
   A Metaphysics of Light
   Grosseteste and Thirteenth-Century Optics
   Aristotle and Geometry
   Aristotle and Scientific System
   Rationalists, Empiricists, and God
   A New Dynamics
   A New Kinematics: The Mertonians
   The Rise and Fall of Aristotelian Science
19 The Astronomers
   Early Western Astronomy
   The Renaissance of the Greek Tradition
   Ptolemy's Almagest
   A Painful Climb: Student Texts
   Ptolemaic Planetary Theory
   Astronomical Tables and Techniques
   Natural Philosophy and the Astronomers
   Heaven and the Heavens
20 The Astrologers
   Early History
   Oxford Astrology
   Exafrenon
21 Instruments of Thought
   Mathematics as Instrument
   Material Instruments
   The Rectangulus
22 Albion
   Early Equatoria
   Tacit Geometry
   New Ways with Old Theory
   Sun, Moon and Eclipse
   Curves for Functional Relationships
   The Fortunes of Albion
23 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index