Download or read book Anno s Sundial written by Mitsumasa Anno and published by Philomel. This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the earth's movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have been used to tell time. Includes illustrations that pop up or fold out to demonstrate how sundials work.
Download or read book Anno s Sundial written by Mitsumasa Anno and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shadow on the Sundial a Letter to the Bishop of London Containing Chronological Evidence Supplementary to that Lately Published in a Series of Lectures on Isaiah s Testimony for Jesus written by William Brown GALLOWAY and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prosciutto Sundial written by Christopher Charles Parslow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prosciutto Sundial is the first comprehensive study of the sundial in the shape of a miniature prosciutto from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum from its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times. Drawing on contemporary correspondence and manuscripts, early philological and scientific assessments, and later published accounts, it catalogs the many attempts by scholars and lay people alike to understand how it functioned. It explains the significance of its context in the Villa and, through the results of empirical analysis using a 3D model, highlights the remarkable accuracy of this unique ancient timepiece.
Download or read book Prefixes and Other Word Initial Elements written by Urdang Staff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down to the Hour Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clock time", with all its benefits and anxieties, is often viewed as a "modern" phenomenon, but ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures also had tools for marking and measuring time within the day and wrestled with challenges of daily time management. This book brings together for the first time perspectives on the interplay between short-term timekeeping technologies and their social contexts in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Its contributions denaturalize modern-day concepts of clocks, hours, and temporal frameworks; describe some of the timekeeping solutions used in antiquity; and illuminate the diverse factors that affected how individuals and communities structured their time.
Download or read book Sundials written by Denis Savoie and published by Praxis. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sundials, which decorate church walls, public plazas, and elegant gardens, are first and foremost astronomical instruments. Before understanding how sundials work, one must first understand the apparent motion of the Sun in the sky. In this book, Denis Savoie presents the basics of astronomy required to understand sundials and describes how to design and build your own classical sundial. Written for all levels of science readers, the author shows the calculations involved in the sundial’s construction and also gives a comprehensive history of time measurement. The practical and observational aspects of sundials will enable readers to create custom-made sundial of their own, adding whatever special features they wish to include. Most of these designs have been tested by people with no previous knowledge of astronomy. To aid the reader, the book is full of clear and instructive illustrations and diagrams.
Download or read book Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments written by Charles Mollan and published by Charles Mollan. This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
Download or read book Literature for Science and Mathematics written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the perspectives of educators in both the science and mathematics communities, this publication is intended to serve as a resource for teachers of students in kindergarten through grade 12 in choosing science- and mathematics-related literature for their schools and classrooms. It contains over 1,000 annotated entries on the physical sciences, earth sciences, life sciences, and mathematics. Formatted for easy use, each entry provides information on the author, publisher and publication date, type of literature, subject emphasis, suggested grade span, and illustrations.
Download or read book Recent English Domestic Architecture written by Mervyn E. Macartney and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ordered Day written by James Ker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in modern receptions of ancient Rome. Romans used the story of how the day emerged as a unit of sociocultural time to give order to their own civic and imperial history. Ancient literary descriptions of people's daily routines articulated distinctive forms of life within the social order. And in the imperial period and beyond, outsiders—such as early Christians in their monastic rules and modern antiquarians in books on daily life—ordered their knowledge of Roman life through reworking the day as a heuristic framework. Scholarly interest in Roman time has recently moved from the larger unit of the year and calendar to smaller units of time, especially in the study of sundials and other timekeeping technologies of the ancient Mediterranean. Through extensive analysis of ancient literary texts and material culture as well as modern daily life handbooks, Ker demonstrates the privileged role that "small time" played, and continues to play, in Roman literary and cultural history. Ker argues that the ordering of the day provided the basis for the organizing of history, society, and modern knowledge about ancient Rome. For readers curious about daily life in ancient Rome as well as for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature, The Ordered Day provides an accessible and fascinating account of the makings of the Roman day and its relationship to modern time structures.
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Download or read book Sprezzatura written by Peter D'Epiro and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? “Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. No one has demonstrated effortless mastery throughout history quite like the Italians. From the Roman calendar and the creator of the modern orchestra (Claudio Monteverdi) to the beginnings of ballet and the creator of modern political science (Niccolò Machiavelli), Sprezzatura highlights fifty great Italian cultural achievements in a series of fifty information-packed essays in chronological order.
Download or read book Studies in Dante written by Edward Moore and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Harley Psalter written by William Noel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the making of the Harley Psalter at Christ Church Canterbury c.1020-1130.
Download or read book Bede and His World 1979 1993 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
