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Tim Wetherell's Clockwork Universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (2009). The clockwork universe is a concept which compares the universe to a mechanical clock.It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every aspect of the machine predictable.
First release of the Clockwork Century universe. [20] [21] 'Hell's Bells,' Grant’s Pass, Morrigan Books 2009 'The Catastrophe Box', a short story Son of Retro Pulp Tales, Subterranean Press 2010 'Reluctance', a short story, part of "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk", first published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012
A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) c ...
Clockwork is set in the fictional town of Glockenheim in Germany in "the old days". It has three main characters: Karl, an apprentice clockmaker who has failed to make a figure for the town clock; Gretl, who is a very selfless young girl and is the daughter of the innkeeper of Glockenheim and Fritz, a local writer whose unfinished story sets the gears of Clockwork turning.
The first book, The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, was published in June 2015. It was a Waterstones Book of the Month. The sequel, The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth , was published in February 2016; the third instalment, The Mystery of the Painted Dragon , was published in February 2017, with the fourth and final instalment The Midnight ...
Title page of The Christian Virtuoso (1690). The Christian Virtuoso (1690) was one of the last books published by Robert Boyle, [1] who was a champion of his Anglican faith. This book summarised his religious views, [2] including his idea of a clockwork universe created by God.
In “The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life,” readers won't walk away with a clear-cut answer to that question.
The Clockwork Three is a 2010 novel by American author Matthew J. Kirby. Set in a fictional coastal city in the late nineteenth century, it follows three children: Giuseppe, Hannah, and Frederick who work to solve each other's problems.