The Map And The Clock
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The Map And The Clock
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Author : Carol Ann Duffy
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Map And The Clock written by Carol Ann Duffy and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Poetry categories.
Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know - Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland - 'to begin at the beginning', to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order to tell our story across the ages in this beautiful, vital treasury.
Map Of Days
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Author : Robert Hunter
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Map Of Days written by Robert Hunter and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Richard can’t stop thinking about the clock. He lies in bed each night listening to its tick-tocking, to the pendulum’s heavy swing. Why does his granddad open its old doors in secret and walk into the darkness beyond? One night, too inquisitive to sleep, Richard tiptoes from his bed, opens the cherry wood doors, and steps inside . . .
Discovery Of Longitude The
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Author : Joan Marie Galat
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-09-14
Discovery Of Longitude The written by Joan Marie Galat and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Scientific discovery changes the world! Discover the fascinating story behind one of the most important changes to nautical navigation in this nonfiction book for young readers. More than 300 years ago, explorers wandered the seas using unreliable maps. What they needed to know was the longitude of their locations, but for that they needed accurate time keeping. Unfortunately, no accurate source of time measurement at sea existed. In 1714 the British government decided to offer a reward to anyone who could solve the problem. Learned men and great thinkers alike tried unsuccessfully to work out a solution. They declared it unsolvable! Carpenter John Harrison was intrigued; he thought he might have a solution. He worked for years to design a clock that functioned accurately at sea, even though no one believed he could do it. Even after his timepiece was demonstrated effective at sea, he was still not acknowledged for his ingenious solution. It took many years and intervention by the king to grant Harrison the recognition and reward he deserved for solving the problem of how to accurately track longitude and for winning the British government prize. The book offers a detailed map of the world at that time and includes the advancements in the use of longitude since then.
Clock And Compass
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Author : Mark Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Clock And Compass written by Mark Monmonier and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight with US troops during the Spanish-American War. After the war he worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Farmers had started buying cars and trucks, but without adequate maps and signage townsfolk couldn't visit them and they couldn't easily find each other. Plato's solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city folk. He patented his invention and tried to sell it to the Post Office, which took a pass-their business was delivering mail, not facilitating travel. Because the clockface's hours provided the directions, he called his strategy the "Clock System." Some Chicago promoters became intrigued but after their plans failed to gel, he decided to produce the maps himself. Rural sociologists at Cornell, who considered the Clock System an antidote for rural isolation, encouraged him to start a business in Ithaca, where he mapped a dozen New York counties until the Great Depression intervened and he left to work as a government mapmaker in Washington. Between 1936 (after his patent had expired) and 1940, some Ithaca businessmen validated the concept by making "Compass System" maps for half the state's counties"--
Map Of A Soundless Clock
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Author : Matthew Rudd Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Books of the Golden Dolphin
Release Date : 2022-09-02
Map Of A Soundless Clock written by Matthew Rudd Reynolds and has been published by Books of the Golden Dolphin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with categories.
Publications Of The Astronomical Society Of The Pacific
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Author : Astronomical Society of the Pacific
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Publications Of The Astronomical Society Of The Pacific written by Astronomical Society of the Pacific and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Astronomy categories.
The Missing Cuckoo Clock
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Author : Lynda Beauregard
language : en
Publisher: Graphic Universe ™
Release Date : 2014-08-01
The Missing Cuckoo Clock written by Lynda Beauregard and has been published by Graphic Universe ™ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
There's a new kid at Camp Dakota! It's Megan’s first year, and all she can think about is riding horses. But gravity seems to be getting in the way of all the campers' fun, from the stables to the beach. Then the big cuckoo clock in the main cabin goes missing. Who would take a cuckoo clock? Can the campers use the weighty facts they've learned to solve the mystery of where it went—and why? Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!
Einstein S Clocks Poincar S Maps
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Author : Peter Galison
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2003
Einstein S Clocks Poincar S Maps written by Peter Galison and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Esteemed historian of science Galison has culled new information from photos, 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. Illustrations.
The Circadian Clock
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Author : Urs Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-01-23
The Circadian Clock written by Urs Albrecht 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 2010-01-23 with Science categories.
With the invitation to edit this volume, I wanted to take the opportunity to assemble reviews on different aspects of circadian clocks and rhythms. Although most c- tributions in this volume focus on mammalian circadian clocks, the historical int- duction and comparative clocks section illustrate the importance of various other organisms in deciphering the mechanisms and principles of circadian biology. Circadian rhythms have been studied for centuries, but only recently, a mole- lar understanding of this process has emerged. This has taken research on circadian clocks from mystic phenomenology to a mechanistic level; chains of molecular events can describe phenomena with remarkable accuracy. Nevertheless, current models of the functioning of circadian clocks are still rudimentary. This is not due to the faultiness of discovered mechanisms, but due to the lack of undiscovered processes involved in contributing to circadian rhythmicity. We know for example, that the general circadian mechanism is not regulated equally in all tissues of m- mals. Hence, a lot still needs to be discovered to get a full understanding of cir- dian rhythms at the systems level. In this respect, technology has advanced at high speed in the last years and provided us with data illustrating the sheer complexity of regulation of physiological processes in organisms. To handle this information, computer aided integration of the results is of utmost importance in order to d- cover novel concepts that ultimately need to be tested experimentally.
The Stars By Clock Fist
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Author : Henry Milton Neely
language : en
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
Release Date : 1956
The Stars By Clock Fist written by Henry Milton Neely and has been published by New York : Viking Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Astronomy categories.
