The Discovery Of Time
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Author |
: Stephen Edelston Toulmin |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1982-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226808424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226808420 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discovery of Time by : Stephen Edelston Toulmin
"A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of The Discovery of Time is unquestionable."—Martin Lebowitz, The Kenyon Review
Author |
: Sten Nadolny |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 1997-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101658093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101658096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discovery of Slowness by : Sten Nadolny
In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Everyone with whom he came into contact sensed that he was a rare man, one who was “out of his time” and who moved to a different, grander beat. That beat eventually led Franklin to sail once more—on his final, fateful voyage—into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. The Discovery of Slowness is both a riveting account of a remarkable and varied life, and a profound and thought-provoking meditation on time.
Author |
: Stephen Baxter |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2004-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0765312387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780765312389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ages in Chaos by : Stephen Baxter
In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".
Author |
: Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674891996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674891999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle by : Stephen Jay Gould
Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
Author |
: Ricardo J. Quinones |
Publisher |
: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 584 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015008456165 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Renaissance Discovery of Time by : Ricardo J. Quinones
Author |
: Jack Repcheck |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2010-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458766625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458766624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man Who Found Time by : Jack Repcheck
There are four men whose life's work helped free science from the straitjacket of religion. Three of the four - Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Charles Darwin - are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The fourth, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown. A Scottish gentleman farmer, Hutton's observations on his small tract of land led him to a theory that directly contradicted biblical claims that the Earth was only 6,000 years old. Telling the story not only of Hutton, but of the rich intellectual milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age - from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin - The Man Who Found Time is an enlightening, engaging narrative about a little-known man and the science he established.
Author |
: Kären Wigen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2020-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226718620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022671862X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time in Maps by : Kären Wigen
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
Author |
: André Verdet |
Publisher |
: Cartwheel Books |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0590427954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780590427951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis All about Time by : André Verdet
This book about time includes material on clocks & watches, time zones, seasons, phases of the moon, months of the year, & how a person can budget time.
Author |
: Mike Goldsmith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 050065025X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780500650257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Eureka! by : Mike Goldsmith
An absorbing retelling of the adventures of the most revolutionary scientists of all time.
Author |
: Derek Howse |
Publisher |
: Philip Wilson Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105022854330 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greenwich Time and the Longitude: Official Millennium Edition by : Derek Howse
The history of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich has been revised to coincide with the Millenium. Color illustrations and updated text tell the story of Greenwich from its foundations in 1676 to its present status as Longitude 0°, the world's Prime Meridian for measuring longitude and time. The book covers the importance of longitude for navigation and traces the history of Greenwich Time, the basis of universal time-keeping. The book is co-published with the National Maritime Museum, where Derek Howse was the former Head of Navigation and Astronomy.