(Išleidimo metai: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Union Square Kids, ISBN-13: 9781454955009)
An artful nonfiction ode to the beauty and magic of second chances. In early twentieth-century Paris, a new train stationthe Gare dOrsaywas a marvel to everyone who saw it. With stunning architecture and the first trains to be powered by...Daugiau...
A childrens guide to the science and history of telling the time and clockmaking in a fun and interactive way. This interactive book will help children aged 7-9 understand how clocks work and learn how to tell the time on various devices....Daugiau...
David A. Freidel, Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd, Jerry Murdock
Serija: Maya Studies
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813069807)
This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices-- This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people expres...Daugiau...
A luxurious, elegant ode to the legendary men and womens watchesDeveloped 60 years ago from the eponymous race that bequeathed its speed, drive, and virality, the TAG Heuer Carrera is a legendary and iconic timepiece that remains syno...Daugiau...
Two extensive volumes in a decorative slipcase A major reference work for all clock enthusiasts Including a unique index with over 14,000 entries This two-volume publication illustrates the evolutionar...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jan-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228008439)
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, howe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Nov-2020, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Cambridge, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, ISBN-13: 9781909106246)
Ever since the Middle Ages, Western culture has been uniquely obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time. As our abilities grew, the clock came to measure every moment. Soon, natural indicators were no longer suf...Daugiau...
In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As...Daugiau...
Serija: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Jan-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226516448)
What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualizat...Daugiau...
Alexander R. Jones, John Steele, Karlheinz Schaldach, Stephan Heilen, Bernhard Weisser, James Evans, Daryn Lehoux, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Serija: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Exhibition Catalogs
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Nov-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691174402)
The Greeks and Romans lived according to a distinctively Hellenic conception of time as an aspect of cosmic order and regularity. Appropriating ideas from Egypt and the Near East, the Greeks integrated them in a cosmological framework governed by...Daugiau...
Discusses the history of clocks and timekeeping, detailing some of the blunders of such early timepieces as the Mayan calendar, sundials, and pendulum clocks....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Apr-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781783265831)
Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible pre...Daugiau...
Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible pre...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823261949)
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust....Daugiau...
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust....Daugiau...
English summary: Antiquity is rarely considered to be a period typified by massive use of time-measuring instruments. The latter are often viewed as perfunctory, uninventive, or even non-existent. This comprehensive work, which summarises for the fir...Daugiau...
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A cultural history of time imparts facts in engaging and accessible ways while outlining numerous hands-on activities, from making a shadow clock and a candle clock to measuring time with water and using a protractor to create a sundial. Simultaneous...Daugiau...
A cultural history of time imparts facts in engaging and accessible ways while outlining numerous hands-on activities, from making a shadow clock and a candle clock to measuring time with water and using a protractor to create a sundial. Simultaneous...Daugiau...
The process of globalization has brought about countless changes in societies, communities, regions and economies across the globe. It has been analyzed from many perspectives as a result and much has been written to muddy the waters of our unders...Daugiau...
Serija: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jul-2011, Hardback, Leidėjas: Royal Historical Society, ISBN-13: 9780861933112)
A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not...Daugiau...
The first collection of papers, from a history of astronomy workshop in July 2005, was published in 2007 and focused on the ancient near east. The six papers here expand the investigation to calendars and time-reckoning in ancient and medieval China,...Daugiau...
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and cir...Daugiau...
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Offers comprehensive and cross-curricular information on a range of topics drawn from the science, geography, technology and history curricula. Suitable for report writing, topic work, curriculum support and classroom discussion, this title includes...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Feb-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199278206)
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and ci...Daugiau...
Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to...Daugiau...
Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to...Daugiau...
While traveling to an important feast in ancient China, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing devise a water alarm clock to make sure their party reaches the emperors palace before rival warlords. While traveling to an important feast in ancient...Daugiau...
Explores how humans have measured time throughout history, describing ancient methods of timekeeping, the division of the world into time zones, and Einsteins theory of relativity....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Dec-2005, Hardback, Leidėjas: Smart Apple Media, ISBN-13: 9781583402085)
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Explores how humans have measured time throughout history, from moon calendars to sun clocks, hourglasses and other mechanical devices to electric, electronic, and atomic timepieces....Daugiau...
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Discusses how people told time before clocks, how present-day clocks and calendars were invented, and how to make simple timekeeping devices at home. From ancient civilizations earliest calendars and shadow clocks to the atomic clocks of tod...Daugiau...
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The Everyday History series explains in a clear and interesting way how different aspects of daily life have changed over the centuries. Each title guides the reader through time, showing important discoveries and changes that have resulted in the w...Daugiau...
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Questions how seconds, minutes and hours were agreed, why there is no decimal time, why there are seven days in a week, twelve months in a year and not thirteen are all raised and answered as Waugh looks at every aspect of time - from the beginning a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2000, Hardback, Leidėjas: National Geographic Society, ISBN-13: 9780792275039)
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An awardwinning science writer examines the ways humans have measured time throughout history and discusses the various units that are used to keep track of it. By the author of Waves: The Electromagnetic Universe. A fascinating tour...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Mar-2000, Hardback, Leidėjas: Franklin Watts Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780749636326)
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How did people measure time before there were any clocks? Who invented our calendar? What are time zones? What is jet lag? These questions and many others are answered in this book....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jan-2000, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Institute of Physics Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780750306409)
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This book tells the story of the battle between astronomers and physicists over the keeping of time. In the 1950s physicists began developing atomic clocks to prove their theory that astronomic time was inaccurate and should be replaced by atomic tim...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Nov-1999, Hardback, Leidėjas: Headline Book Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780747221784)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Questions how seconds, minutes and hours were agreed, why there is no decimal time, why there are seven days in a week, twelve months in a year and not thirteen are all raised and answered as Waugh looks at every aspect of time - from the beginning...Daugiau...
A look at mans attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world....Daugiau...
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Give us our eleven days! is one of the best-known slogans of the eighteenth century and yet it is also one of the least understood. Opening with the first historical study of the near legendary English calendar riots of 1752, the author goes on to...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-May-1998, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226155111)
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In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. Detailing the clock...Daugiau...
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Jo Ellen Barnett takes us a step further in our perpetual quest to comprehend time. She bridges the gap between the mechanical clocks which record the fleeting moment as it passes, and the powerful radioactive clocks which have opened up to us th...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Filled with exquisite, detailed illustrations of numerous timekeeping devices from every age, What Time is It? explains how calendars were invented, how people kept track of time before clocks were used, what time is, and more....Daugiau...
