Thanks Sara,
A very interesting book. Haven't finished reading it but will.
It reminds me of a book that I once read about time.
Book indicated that when the telegraph lines were invented. This then allowed
time to be accurate at the end of the telegraph line. Which then allowed the
location longitude to be accurately defined. And more places as the telegraph
lines were extended. And even more places when wireless was invented.
Time is very interesting.
John Harrison's Longitude watch also allowed the longitude to be determined
more accurately at sea. The story of Longitude and time.
Regards,
Roderick Wall.
At the end of the line in Australia.
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To: "Richard Langley" <l...@unb.ca>
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Subject: publication on Science of Time, with sundials
Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2017 6:50 AM
Dear All,
The links were free to me and others, but perhaps we are somehow inside the
firewall. I don't understand what is going on, since I have not logged into
the Springer site.
Here is a link to my download of the book:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uly1qfaov3intr1/Science%20of%20Time%202016%20BOOK_978-3-319-59909-0.pdf?dl=0
I hope this will help.
Sara
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For free? Not when I followed the links.
-- (Prof.) Richard Langley
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> On Nov 2, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Schechner, Sara <sche...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> In June 2016, I attended a symposium on the Science of Time. The
> proceedings have now been published by Springer, and are available for
> free download here:
> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0
>
> The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present
> and Future Edited by Elisa Felicitas Arias, Ludwig Combrinck, Pavel Gabor,
> Catherine Hohenkerk, and P. Kenneth Seidelmann.
> Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 50.
> Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2017
>
> Many articles may be of interest to this group, but in particular there are
> two articles on sundials. I list them below along with direct links ot the
> PDFs:
>
> Geoff Parsons: “The Development and Use of the Pilkington and Gibbs
> Heliochronometer and Sol Horometer”
> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59909-0_7.pd
> f
>
> Sara J. Schechner: “These Are Not Your Mother’s Sundials: Or, Time and
> Astronomy’s Authority”
> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59909-0_8.pd
> f
>
> Happy reading!
> Sara
>
> Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D.
> David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific
> Instruments Lecturer on the History of Science Department of the
> History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford
> Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
> Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-495-3344 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu
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