The Clockwork Universe: German Clocks & Automata, 1550-1650

by Otto Mayr (Editor), Clockwork Universe, Klaus Maurice (Editor)

333 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Otto Mayr was a German mechanical engineer, historian of technology, curator, author and former director of the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington DC and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was particularly known for his work on "The origins of feedback control" and "Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe."