Sundial Of The Seasons
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Sundial Of The Seasons
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Author : Hal Borland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Sundial Of The Seasons written by Hal Borland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Natural history categories.
Sundial Of The Seasons
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Author : Hal Borland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-01-01
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Sundial Of The Seasons
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Author : Hal Borland
language : en
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Release Date : 2022-06-23
Sundial Of The Seasons written by Hal Borland and has been published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with Nature categories.
Living in a world circumscribed by up-to-the-minute news and electronic tools we barely master before they are out-of-date, we attempt to shield ourselves from environmental events which threaten to overturn our constructed reality. Naturally, in such fast-paced and topsy-turvy surroundings we watch the sky and earth for signs of regularity; looking to the changing seasons for hope and rejuvenation, and seeking out the voices of those who speak of constancy in the changes of the natural world. Hal Borland was such a voice. Every week, beginning in 1941, in the editorial pages of The New York Times he would speak of living on the land—this natural world we all try to understand. In this collection of 365 of his essays, arranged daily within the twelve months, he writes with a familiarity of the ways of the country that is at once humble and resiliently knowledgeable. In Sundial of the Seasons you will find page-long ruminations on such topics as “Fog” (“a unique blend of mood and weather“), “The Bumblebee” (“Bumblebees tolerate man, up to a point”), “Dandelions” (“Neither flood nor drouth seems to discourage it”), and “Fishing” (“The fish caught are only a lesser part of the catch”), all in celebration of the everyday events of life in the country. Begin each day with the gentle wit and wisdom of the person who, for nearly four decades, wrote his “outdoor editorials” in an engaging and inimitable fashion eagerly read by thousands.
A Choice Of Sundials
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Author : Winthrop W. Dolan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
A Choice Of Sundials written by Winthrop W. Dolan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Science categories.
Hal Borland S Book Of Days
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Author : Hal Borland
language : en
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Release Date : 2022-06-23
Hal Borland S Book Of Days written by Hal Borland and has been published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with Nature categories.
Oftentimes the answers to life’s biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature writer Hal Borland (1900–1978) takes readers on an eye-opening day-by-day journey through a year of the outdoor world around us. Originally published in The New York Times as “daily reflections,” these short reports and observations convey Borland’s inspiring thoughts about the world around him and the creatures he shared it with. He also muses about the changes in weather and climate through the seasons, reflects on our traditions and habits, and ponders fundamental questions about what it all means. Writing in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, and with the inquisitiveness of a philosopher and the perceptive wit of a wise old New England farmer, Borland portrays with simple clarity the elements of change and permanence in the untamed world around us. Neither calendar nor almanac, this delightful natural history “daybook” of mini essays features a treasure trove of fascinating philosophical insights and environmental wonders. Book of Days can be read straight through or savored one day at a time. Be sure to also read Hal Borland's other bestselling classics published by Echo Point Books—Hal Borland's Twelve Moons of the Year and Sundial of the Seasons.
Granting The Seasons
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Author : Nathan Sivin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-12-19
Granting The Seasons written by Nathan Sivin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-19 with Mathematics categories.
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
Our Celestial Clockwork From Ancient Origins To Modern Astronomy Of The Solar System
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Author : Richard Kerner
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Our Celestial Clockwork From Ancient Origins To Modern Astronomy Of The Solar System written by Richard Kerner and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Science categories.
This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement. Great scientists of antiquity, Middle Ages and modern times until the 18th century, are presented along with their discoveries, through short biographies and anecdotes. Special care is taken to explain their achievements using mathematical and physical concepts of their time, with modern perspective added only when ancient methodology is too cumbersome or its language hardly understandable to contemporary readers.The book conveys a lot of astronomical facts and data in a pleasant and accessible manner. Almost all findings and discoveries made in ancient times are followed by simple mathematical exercises using basic knowledge, so that the reader can check the assertions himself. The book contains a lot of inedited illustrations. Geometrical schemes are given extra attention to make the examples clear and understandable. The language is simple and accessible to the young audience.
The Roman S World
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Author : Frank Gardner Moore
language : en
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Release Date : 1936
The Roman S World written by Frank Gardner Moore and has been published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Sundials
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Author : Ralph Edgar Gould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Sundials written by Ralph Edgar Gould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Sundials categories.
The Ordered Day
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Author : James Ker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-03-21
The Ordered Day written by James Ker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-21 with History categories.
Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in modern receptions of ancient Rome. Romans used the story of how the day emerged as a unit of sociocultural time to give order to their own civic and imperial history. Ancient literary descriptions of people's daily routines articulated distinctive forms of life within the social order. And in the imperial period and beyond, outsiders—such as early Christians in their monastic rules and modern antiquarians in books on daily life—ordered their knowledge of Roman life through reworking the day as a heuristic framework. Scholarly interest in Roman time has recently moved from the larger unit of the year and calendar to smaller units of time, especially in the study of sundials and other timekeeping technologies of the ancient Mediterranean. Through extensive analysis of ancient literary texts and material culture as well as modern daily life handbooks, Ker demonstrates the privileged role that "small time" played, and continues to play, in Roman literary and cultural history. Ker argues that the ordering of the day provided the basis for the organizing of history, society, and modern knowledge about ancient Rome. For readers curious about daily life in ancient Rome as well as for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature, The Ordered Day provides an accessible and fascinating account of the makings of the Roman day and its relationship to modern time structures.
