(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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....Lasīt vairāk
David A. Freidel, Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd, Jerry Murdock
Sērija : Maya Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jan-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Nov-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Jan-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
Alexander R. Jones, John Steele, Karlheinz Schaldach, Stephan Heilen, Bernhard Weisser, James Evans, Daryn Lehoux, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Sērija : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Exhibition Catalogs
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Nov-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
Discusses the history of clocks and timekeeping, detailing some of the blunders of such early timepieces as the Mayan calendar, sundials, and pendulum clocks....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Apr-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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....Lasīt vairāk
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....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
