Clepsydra

Author : Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804797160

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Clepsydra by Sylvie Anne Goldberg Pdf

The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and relative. Time is not a uniform phenomenon. It is a social construct made of beliefs, scientific knowledge, and political experiment. It is also a story told by theologians, historians, philosophers, and astrophysicists. Consequently, Clepsydra is a cultural history divided in two parts: narrated time and measured time, recounted time and counted time, absolute time and ordered time. It is through this dialog that Sylvie Anne Goldberg challenges the idea of a unified Judeo-Christian time and asks, "What is Jewish time?" She consults biblical and rabbinic sources and refers to medieval and modern texts to understand the different sorts of consciousness of time found in Judaism. In Jewish time, Goldberg argues, past, present, and future are intertwined and comprise one perpetual narrative.

Author : Raffaele Pisano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401796453

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A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks by Raffaele Pisano Pdf

This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applications? The authors explain various ways in which the sciences allowed advanced modelling on the one hand, and the development of new technological ideas on the other hand. An emphasis on the role played by mechanisms, production methods and instruments bestows a benefit on historical and scientific discourse: theories, institutions, universities, schools for engineers, social implications as well. Scholars from different traditions discuss the emergency style of thinking in methodology and, in theoretical perspective, aim to gather and re-evaluate the current thinking on this subject. It brings together contributions from leading experts in the field, and gives much-needed insight into the subject from a historical point of view. The volume composition makes for absorbing reading for historians, philosophers and scientists.

Author : Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415969301

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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine by Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis Pdf

Demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the flowering of the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. This reference work will be useful to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields of study, including medieval studies and world history.

Author : Broughton Richmond
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Calendar
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Time Measurement and Calendar Construction by Broughton Richmond Pdf

Author : Robert Bembenik,Łukasz Skonieczny,Henryk Rybiński,Marzena Kryszkiewicz,Marek Niezgódka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319047140

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Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform: From Research to Implementation by Robert Bembenik,Łukasz Skonieczny,Henryk Rybiński,Marzena Kryszkiewicz,Marek Niezgódka Pdf

This book is a selection of results obtained within three years of research performed under SYNAT—a nation-wide scientific project aiming at creating an infrastructure for scientific content storage and sharing for academia, education and open knowledge society in Poland. The book is intended to be the last of the series related to the SYNAT project. The previous books, titled “Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform” and “Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform: Advanced Architectures and Solutions”, were published as volumes 390 and 467 in Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence. Its contents is based on the SYNAT 2013 Workshop held in Warsaw. The papers included in this volume present an overview and insight into information retrieval, repository systems, text processing, ontology-based systems, text mining, multimedia data processing and advanced software engineering, addressing the problems of implementing intelligent tools for building a scientific information platform.

Author : Marco Ceccarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401595544

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International Symposium on History of Machines and MechanismsProceedings HMM 2000 by Marco Ceccarelli Pdf

The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is a new initiative to promote explicitly researches and publications in the field of the History of TMM (Theory of Machines and Mechanisms). It was held at the University of Cassino, Italy, from 11 to 13 May 2000. The Symposium was devoted mainly to the technical aspects of historical developments and therefore it has been addressed mainly to the IFToMM Community. In fact, most the authors of the contributed papers are experts in TMM and related topics. This has been, indeed, a challenge: convincing technical experts to go further in-depth into the background of their topics of expertise. We have received a very positive response, as can be seen by the fact that these Proceedings contain contributions by authors from all around the world. We received about 50 papers, and after review about 40 papers were accepted for both presentation and publishing in the Proceedings. This means also that the History of TMM is of interest everywhere and, indeed, an in-depth knowledge of the past can be of great help in working on the present and in shaping the future with new ideas. I believe that a reader will take advantage of the papers in these Proceedings with further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not). These papers cover the wide field of the History of Mechanical Engineering and particularly the History of TMM.

Author : Anaxagoras Clazomenius,Anaxagoras,Patricia Curd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802093257

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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae by Anaxagoras Clazomenius,Anaxagoras,Patricia Curd Pdf

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is in everything and his rejection of the possibility of coming to be or passing away are fundamental to all his other views. Because of his philosophical doctrines, Anaxagoras was condemned for impiety and exiled from Athens. This volume presents all of the surviving fragments of Anaxagoras' writings, both the Greek texts and original facing-page English translations for each. Generously supplemented, it includes detailed annotations, as well as five essays that consider the philosophical and interpretive questions raised by Anaxagoras. Also included are new translations of the ancient testimonia concerning Anaxagoras' life and work, showing the importance of the philosopher and his ideas for his contemporaries and successors. This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.

Author : PSJ (Peet) Schutte
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781291491128

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UNCOVERING CORRUPT SCIENCE by PSJ (Peet) Schutte Pdf

Modern science or what I call Newtonian science is altogether wrong. Nothing can stand still in the Universe and remain a part of the Universe. The Universe is the movement thereof. Everything in the Universe has to move should it wish to be ... and everything in the Universe moves ... and in circles but everything moves. There is no mass but only movement and movement is gravity and gravity is time forming space. But how does this system work and how does this system form an entire Universe as big as the one we have. Read this and see how the Universe is truly stitched together by nature and not by Newton's fantasy. It works exactly as Kepler said it does in the tables Kepler left us to study. Space by three forms a circle by two that moves straight by one and that forms the six sided Universe we enjoy as a reality...

Author : Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek John de Solla Price
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521322766

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Heavenly Clockwork by Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek John de Solla Price Pdf

A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.

Author : David Furley,Reginald E Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315511436

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Studies in Presocratic Philosophy Volume 2 by David Furley,Reginald E Allen Pdf

The articles in this volume deal with the four major philosophical positions of the presocratic period: The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories The three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras and the early Atomists.

Author : Peter F.M. Coesel,Koos J. Meesters
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004277915

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European Flora of the Desmid Genera Staurastrum and Staurodesmus by Peter F.M. Coesel,Koos J. Meesters Pdf

This flora represents the European species of het desmid genera Staurastrum and Staurodesmus and contains reliable identification keys and general information on the morphology, taxonomy, ecology and geographical distribution. An invaluable tool for aquatic ecologists and water quality management.

Author : Associated University Presses,G.E.R. Lloyd
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0845345176

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Polarity and Analogy by Associated University Presses,G.E.R. Lloyd Pdf

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981-05-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521229838

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Much Ado about Nothing by Edward Grant Pdf

Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : 0521058015

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth by Joseph Needham Pdf

After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071607497

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Scientific American by Anonim Pdf