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Book Synopsis Precision Astrolabe by : Francis Millet Rogers
Download or read book Precision Astrolabe written by Francis Millet Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mariner's Astrolabe. A Survey of 48 Surviving Examples by : Alan Stimson
Download or read book The Mariner's Astrolabe. A Survey of 48 Surviving Examples written by Alan Stimson and published by UC Biblioteca Geral 1. This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Astrolabe by : James E.. Morrison
Download or read book The Astrolabe written by James E.. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Book Synopsis Time and Navigation by : Andrew Kenneth Johnston
Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Download or read book The Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A review of astronomy" (varies).
Download or read book Geodesy written by Wolfgang Torge and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present state of geodesy is illustrated by selected examples of instruments and results of geodetic data processing. An extensive reference list supports further studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Surveying Instruments by : Fritz Deumlich
Download or read book Surveying Instruments written by Fritz Deumlich and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1982 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spindrift by : Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender
Download or read book Spindrift written by Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Astrometry by : Jean Kovalevsky
Download or read book Modern Astrometry written by Jean Kovalevsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to practical astrometry, dealing with the determination of positions, motions, distances and dimensions of celestial bodies ranging from quasars to artificial satellites. For this 2nd edition, the release of the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs, the rise in CCD astrometry and the adoption of a new celestial reference frame by the IAU led to a significant modification of the text. And, especially, the outlook for astrometry has been completely rewritten.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medieval Textual Cultures by : Faith Wallis
Download or read book Medieval Textual Cultures written by Faith Wallis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes “available” for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated “ecology” of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.
Book Synopsis High-Precision Earth Rotation and Earth-Moon Dynamics by : O. Calame
Download or read book High-Precision Earth Rotation and Earth-Moon Dynamics written by O. Calame and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 63rd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held at Grasse, France, May 22-27, 1982
Book Synopsis Astronomy Education by : John R. Percy
Download or read book Astronomy Education written by John R. Percy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by : Seb Falk
Download or read book The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science written by Seb Falk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.
Book Synopsis Astrometric Techniques by : Heinrich K. Eichhorn
Download or read book Astrometric Techniques written by Heinrich K. Eichhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Gainesville, Florida, USA, January 9-12, 1984