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In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999. Passemant’s clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva’s intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock.Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Nivi’s son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a young writer for Nivi’s magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present, jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness. Nivi’s life resembles her creator’s in many respects, coloring Kristeva’s customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of the most illuminating works of one of France’s great writers and thinkers.

Astronomical clocks --- Time --- Clocks, Astronomical --- Astronomical instruments --- Clocks and watches

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Astronomie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Astronomie médiévale --- Astronomy [Medieval ] --- Medieval astronomy --- Middeleeuwse astronomie --- Orreries --- Orrerys --- Planetaires --- Planetaria --- Planetariums --- Astronomical clocks --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Astronomy, Medieval. --- Classical Latin literature --- Applied astronomy --- Astronomical models --- Clocks, Astronomical --- Astronomical instruments --- Clocks and watches --- Solar system --- Dondi dall'Orologio, Giovanni --- Early works to 1800 --- Astronomical clocks - Early works to 1800. --- Planetariums - Early works to 1800. --- Astronomy, Medieval - Early works to 1800.

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Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) --- Calendar, Greek --- Antikythēra Island (Greece) --- Antiquities --- Astronomical clocks --- -Astronomy, Greek --- Greek calendar --- Greek astronomy --- Clocks, Astronomical --- Astronomical instruments --- Clocks and watches --- History --- Cerigotto --- -Antiquities --- Astronomy, Greek --- Mathematical instruments --- Aegilia Island (Greece) --- Andikithira Island (Greece) --- Anticythera Island (Greece) --- Antikithera Island (Greece) --- Antikythira Island (Greece) --- Cerigotto Island (Greece) --- Nēsos Antikythēra (Greece) --- Nisos Andikithira (Greece) --- Nisos Antikythira (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Antikythēra Island (Greece) - Antiquities

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This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece. The historical background, surviving evidence and reconstructions of the mechanism are introduced, and the historical development of astronomical achievements and various astronomical instruments are investigated. Pursuing an approach based on the conceptual design of modern mechanisms and bearing in mind the standards of science and technology at the time, all feasible designs of the six lost/incomplete/unclear subsystems are synthesized as illustrated examples, and 48 feasible designs of the complete interior structure are presented. This approach provides not only a logical tool for applying modern mechanical engineering knowledge to the reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, but also an innovative research direction for identifying the original structures of the mechanism in the future. In short, the book offers valuable new insights for all readers who are interested in the Antikythera mechanism.

Physics - General --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) --- Astronomical clocks --- Calendar, Greek. --- History. --- Greek calendar --- Clocks, Astronomical --- Astronomical instruments --- Clocks and watches --- Mathematical instruments --- Engineering. --- Science --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Science Education. --- History of Science. --- Study and teaching. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Physics. --- Machinery. --- Science education. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Curious devices