This book explores the development of an analysis tool for lunar crescent visibility criterion using an integrated lunar crescent visibility database....Lasīt vairāk
This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks.It explains how super-powerful computers and global webs of connection have remade time through speed....Lasīt vairāk
Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Jul-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199599332)
Ulrich Meyer defends a novel theory about the nature of time, and argues against the consensus view that time and space are fundamentally alike. He presents the first comprehensive defense of a modal account, which emphasizes the similarities betw...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Sep-2012, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199589449)
Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Aug-2012, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814383172)
A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the reversibility paradox, with modern tools. This book emphasizes the authors approach to the problem of understanding the compatibi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Feb-2009, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199278206)
Overturning many common perceptions of the past - for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related - this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how telling the time has come to dominate our...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2008, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199543120)
This is the first comprehensive study in English of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday to have appeared in more than one hundred years. It offers a new explanation of how the system of numbe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jun-2006, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198568025)
Biography of the polymath, Lt Cmdr Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the man who, in the 1920s, restored the great eighteenth century marine timekeepers by John Harrison to their former glory. With his encyclopaedic knowledge, he studied and wrote on sub...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Apr-2006, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812707123)
Prospective memory - especially time-based - is a way to study memory. This volume brings together the work on time perception and time-based prospective memory in order to understand how people time their intentions. It also provides an account of...Lasīt vairāk
Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? The author advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. He offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophica...Lasīt vairāk
Gender in Real Time brings gender into the realm of time. Weston introduces the temporality concept, looking at the ways that gender exists and can be measured in units of time....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-2002, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195129656)
God and Time is a collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading philosophers about Gods relation to time. The essays have been selected to represent current debates written between those who believe God to be atemporal and those...Lasīt vairāk
This book traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origin until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. It draws on a wide range of sources - literary, documentary and epigraphic; Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian. The...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-1995, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780195637984)
This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter is found in familiar historical forms. The author argues for the existence of...Lasīt vairāk
The compiler of Time: A Bibliographic Guide (Garland, 1991) used that reference to locate the subjects which have been energized by a concern with time, to identify their relationships with other such subjects, and to help in identifying appropri...Lasīt vairāk
