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Author : Alexandra Mack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Calendar Reform written by Alexandra Mack and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737024
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Global Transformation of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
Author : C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198799551
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Scandalous Error written by C. Philipp E. Nothaft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a triumph of early modern scientific culture or an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Much less attention has been paid to reform's intellectual roots in the European Middle Ages, when the reckoning of time by means of calendrical cycles was a topic of central importance to learned culture, as impressively documented by the survival of relevant texts and tables in thousands of manuscripts copied before 1500. For centuries prior to the Gregorian reform, astronomers, mathematicians, theologians, and even Church councils had been debating the necessity of improving or emending the existing ecclesiastical calendar, which throughout the Middle Ages kept losing touch with the astronomical phenomena at an alarming pace. Scandalous Error is the first comprehensive study of the medieval literature devoted to the calendar problem and its cultural and scientific contexts. It examines how the importance of ordering liturgical time by means of a calendar that comprised both solar and lunar components posed a technical-astronomical problem to medieval society and details the often sophisticated ways in which computists and churchmen reacted to this challenge. By drawing attention to the numerous connecting paths that existed between calendars and mathematical astronomy between the Fall of Rome and the end of the fifteenth century, the volume offers substantial new insights on the place of exact science in medieval culture.
Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The extraordinary pace of events in the twentieth century has been contusing as well as exciting. This is particularly so in the arts, where even the accepted definition of a work of art has often broken down completely, while the numerous styles and "isms" in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, cinema and other disciplines have been invented and discarded in quick succession. This book is a chronology of change: it sets the immense variety of twentieth-century cultural activity, year by year, against the background of world events. It does so not only through a succinct and authoritative narrative, but also by taking each year in turn and presenting a list of the major works in each art form created during that year. This is set against a concurrent general events of political, social or cultural significance. Each year is also individually illustrated, the pictures having been carefully selected so that they evoke the styles and contrasts of the time."--book jacket.
Author : Moses B. King
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The New Calendar for the Twentieth Century written by Moses B. King and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Archer
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Christian Calendar and the Gregorian Reform written by Peter Archer and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Journal of Calendar Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Catherine Welborn
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calendar Reform in the Thirteenth Century ... written by Mary Catherine Welborn and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571134110
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon written by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware, marked by social criticism and a profound questioning of American values. They have carried the labels of satire and black humor, and "Pynchonesque" has come to be associated with erudition, a playful style, anachronisms and puns -- and an interest in scientific theories, popular culture, paranoia, and the "military-industrial complex." In short, Pynchon's novels were the sine qua non of postmodernism; Mason & Dixon went further, using the same style, wit, and erudition to re-create an 18th century when "America" was being formed as both place and idea. Pynchon's focus on the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line and the governmental and scientific entities responsible for it makes a clearer statement than any of his previous novels about the slavery and imperialism at the heart of the Enlightenment, as he levels a dark and hilarious critique at this America. This volume of new essays studies the interface between 18th- and 20th-century cultureboth in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. It offers fresh thinking about Pynchon's work, as the contributors take up the linkages between the 18th and 20th centuries in studies that are as concerned with culture as withthe literary text itself. Contributors: Mitchum Huehls, Brian Thill, Colin Clarke, Pedro Garcia-Caro, Dennis Lensing, Justin M. Scott Coe, Ian Copestake, Frank Palmeri. Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds is Professor and Chair of the English Department at SUNY Brockport.
Author : Michael J. Walsh
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ISBN 13 : 9780244104061
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Great Calendar Reform written by Michael J. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII is now the most widely used civil calendar in the world. The older calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. underestimated the length of the year by about 11 minutes. As centuries passed, the accumulated error grew. By the late 1500s the Julian calendar was behind by twelve days. Set amid the backdrop of the Reformation and the Renaissance, a time of great schism in the Christian world, the story of the calendar reform is an intriguing one. A central part concerns the antagonistic relationship between two of the great intellectual figures of the 16th century: the pro-reform mathematician Christopher Clavius and the anti-reform literary scholar Joseph Scaliger. In this book, the author provides an accessible mathematical description of the old and new calendars as well as a detailed discussion of the historical context for, and the main players involved in the calendar reform.
Author : Margaret O'Mara
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247469
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Pivotal Tuesdays written by Margaret O'Mara and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections—1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992—using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history.
Author : Urantia Foundation
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ISBN 13 : 9780911560084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Urantia Book written by Urantia Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This priceless and inexhaustible resource is the ultimate synthesis of science, philosophy and truth, of reason, wisdom and faith, and of past, present and future. This book comes in either red or blue.
Author : Elisabeth Achelis
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World Calendar written by Elisabeth Achelis and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743203267
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Left Back written by Diane Ravitch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.
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Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The 20th Century Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Steel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470245085
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Marking Time written by Duncan Steel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 b.c., to January 1, a.d. 1 (there is no year zero), then you will enjoy Duncan Steel's Marking Time."--American Scientist "No book could serve as a better guide to the cumulative invention that defines the imaginary threshold to the new millennium."--Booklist A Fascinating March through History and the Evolution of the Modern-Day Calendar . . . In this vivid, fast-moving narrative, you'll discover the surprising story of how our modern calendar came about and how it has changed dramatically through the years. Acclaimed author Duncan Steel explores each major step in creating the current calendar along with the many different systems for defining the number of days in a week, the length of a month, and the number of days in a year. From the definition of the lunar month by Meton of Athens in 432 b.c. to the roles played by Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, and Isaac Newton to present-day proposals to reform our calendar, this entertaining read also presents "timely" tidbits that will take you across the full span of recorded history. Find out how and why comets have been used as clocks, why there is no year zero between 1 b.c. and a.d. 1, and why for centuries Britain and its colonies rang in the New Year on March 25th. Marking Time will leave you with a sense of awe at the haphazard nature of our calendar's development. Once you've read this eye-opening book, you'll never look at the calendar the same way again.
Author : David M'Kie
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The "century" Calendars written by David M'Kie and published by . This book was released on 1900* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
