(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Royal Observatory Greenwich, ISBN-13: 9781906367916)
When King Charles II signed the royal warrant that led to the founding of the Royal Observatory in 1675, it was to ensure that Britain was not left behind other European nations as they pursued global trade and resources. Now, in its 350th year,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112216088)
Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons – wi...Loe edasi...
This wayfarers journey of discovery into time casts a new light on our lives, our universe, existence and reality. Visiting philosophy, physics, psychology, neuroscience and the arts it unveils the wonders that lie beneath our daily experience of t...Loe edasi...
A prominent historian spans the whole of human history, from the first humans to walk the earth to the radical—and sometimes devastating—breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific Revolutions, integrating history and science to chal...Loe edasi...
A prominent historian spans the whole of human history, from the first humans to walk the earth to the radical—and sometimes devastating—breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions, integrating history and science to chal...Loe edasi...
The analysis of lunar crescent visibility criterion is vital to provide a comparative insight for its performance in predicting visibility and suitability for Hijri calendar determination. While there have been previous attempts to measure the perfo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031573330)
This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea. They followed development of chronometers which were carried in ship...Loe edasi...