Ships, Clocks, and Stars
Author | : Richard Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Discoveries in science |
ISBN | : 9780007940523 |
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Author | : Richard Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Discoveries in science |
ISBN | : 9780007940523 |
Author | : Richard Dunn |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062357174 |
A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Author | : National Maritime Museum |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0007525877 |
Recommended for viewing on colour device. Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's “Ships, Clocks and Stars” exhibition.
Author | : Richard Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Longitude |
ISBN | : 9780007525867 |
Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition "Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude". 300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude (east-west position) at sea. With life-changing rewards on offer, the challenge captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled craftsmen, politicians, seamen and satirists. This beautifully illustrated book is a detailed account of these stories, and how the longitude problem was solved. Highlights of the book include: * Foreword by the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. * Specially commissioned photographs of the National Maritime Museum's collection. * A new description of the collaborations and conflicts in a tale of technical creativity, scientific innovation and hard commercialism. From the same publisher as Dava Sobel's Longitude, Finding Longitude tells a new story of one of the great achievements of the Georgian age, and how it changed our understanding of the world.
Author | : Geoff McNamara |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2009-04-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 038776562X |
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world.
Author | : Derek Roberts |
Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780764320217 |
This volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. Over 500 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs illustrate the historical contributions of renowned clockmakers from France and Germany. America's contribution to precision timekeeping is chronicled along with recent advancements in precision pendulum timekeeping.
Author | : Joseph Daniele |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780811722322 |
Includes the four basic types of clocks---plaque, shelf, wall, and tall case clocks. Plans, drawings, and photos included.
Author | : Derek Roberts |
Publisher | : Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780764308734 |
Over 300 clocks, for buildings or tabletops, which do far more than tell time, are presented with concise historical explanations, detailed drawings, and clear color photography. 700 years of clocks are studied, clocks that display magical acts, appear to require no power to drive them, or have no apparent connection between the movement and the hands. These mystery clocks are fascinating mechanisms.
Author | : Bruce Koscielniak |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Time |
ISBN | : 0618396683 |
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Author | : Peter Galison |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393243869 |
"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others.…Galison has unearthed fascinating material" (New York Times). Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicist experimenting with measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations; and the renowned mathematician Henri Poincaré, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents. Each found that to understand the newly global world, he had to determine whether there existed a pure time in which simultaneity was absolute or whether time was relative. Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time.