![]() Marisa Addomine holds a doctorate in engineering, is an independent horological researcher, and President of the Italian turret clock register. He is Vice Chair and Honorary Librarian of the Antiquarian Horological Society. He is also Horological Adviser to a number of heritage bodies including the National Trust. Jonathan Betts, a professional horologist all his life, was Senior Conservator and then Senior Curator of Horology at Royal Museums Greenwich for 35 years, and remains a Curator Emeritus. James is chair of the Antiquarian Horology Society, and founder and principal sponsor of London's Clockworks Museum. A continuing theme in his ongoing work is the emergence of distributed accurate timekeeping from the late nineteenth century onwards. ![]() From practical bench work on clocks as a teenager, his career progressed to researching and writing on the history of time measurement. His thesis included case studies of early electric clock companies, reflecting a lifelong involvement in horology, especially in the electrical arena. James Nye studied Theology at Oxford, and later completed a PhD in Financial History at Kings College London. As consultant he collaborates with leading museums and auction houses and has been responsible for the organisation of several international exhibitions. Timers and telescope drives, Paolo BrenniĢ4:Horology verbalised horology visualised, Christina FaradayĢ5:The Literature of horology, Bernhard HuberĢ6:Collecting and writing the history of horology, Anthony TurnerĪnthony Turner, Chairman, Antiquarian Horological Society, James Nye, Curator Emeritus, Royal Museums Greenwich, and Jonathan Betts, Independent scholarĪnthony Turner works primarily on the history of scientific instruments, clocks, watches and related items in their technical and social contexts during the Early Modern period. Orreries and planetaria, Jim Bennett, Anthony Turner The challenge of the Swiss and their competitors, Johann Boilatĭeveloping the German industry, Sibylle GluchĪ case-study in standardisation: la pendule de Paris, Françoise Collangesġ4:Precision attained: chronometers and regulators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Jonathan Bettsġ5:Responding to customer demand: the decoration of clocks and watches from the Renaissance to recent times, Catherine Cardinalġ6:Eighteenth-century clock exports from Britain to the East Indies, Roger Smithġ7:Public clocks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Marisa Addomineġ8:Wrist-watches from their origins to the twenty-first century, David Boettcherġ9:Electricity, horology, and networked time, James Nye, David RooneyĢ1:The keeping of clocks and watches: maintenance, repair and restoration, Jonathan BettsĢ2:Accessories in horology, Estelle Fallet The horological endeavour in France, Joëlle Mauerhan The nineteenth and twentieth centuries., Denis Roegelġ0:Musical and automaton clocks and watches: sound and motion in time-telling devices, Sharon Kermanġ1:The quest for precision in astronomy and navigation, Jonathan Bettsġ3:Industrial manufacture: clock and watch-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesĪmerican horology and its global reach, Michael Edidin Planetary clocks to the end of the eighteenth century, Karsten Gaulk, Michael Korey, Samuel Gessner Sand-clocks, sand-glasses, and fire-clocks, Anthony TurnerĤ:Public clocks: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, Marisa Addomineįrom the fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, Dietrich Matthesįrom Huygens to the end of the eighteenth century., Wim van KlaverenĦ:Watches in Europe 1600 - 1800, David Thompsonħ:The Structures of horological manufacture and trade: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, Anthony TurnerĨ:The development of the sundial fourteenth to twentieth centuries, Denis Savoie Water-clocks and the earliest escapements, Sebastian Whitestone Time-reckoning in the Medieval Latin world, Mario Arnaldi Sun-dials and water-clocks in Byzantium and Islam, Anthony Turner Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthġ:Time measurement in Antiquity, Jérôme BonninĢ:India and the Far East: dials, water-clocks, fire-clocks.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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