Sky And Ocean Joined

Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815991

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Sky and Ocean Joined by Steven J. Dick Pdf

As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.

Author : Steven J. Dick,LeRoy E. Doggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Astronomical observatories
ISBN : UCR:31210023608100

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Sky with Ocean Joined by Steven J. Dick,LeRoy E. Doggett Pdf

Author : Terry Fan,Eric Fan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481470384

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Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan,Eric Fan Pdf

“Young readers will be captivated.” —The Washington Post From the creators of the gorgeous bestseller The Night Gardener comes a stunning new picture book about a young boy who sets sail to find a place his grandfather told him about…the spot where the ocean meets the sky. It’s a good day for sailing. Finn lives by the sea and the sea lives by him. Every time he looks out his window it’s a constant reminder of the stories his grandfather told him about the place where the ocean meets the sky. Where whales and jellyfish soar and birds and castles float. Finn’s grandfather is gone now but Finn knows the perfect way to honor him. He’ll build his own ship and sail out to find this magical place himself! And when he arrives, maybe, just maybe, he’ll find something he didn’t know he was looking for.

Author : Steven J. Dick,LeRoy E. Doggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Astronomical observatories
ISBN : UCAL:B4395040

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Sky with Ocean Joined by Steven J. Dick,LeRoy E. Doggett Pdf

Author : Jason W. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640457

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To Master the Boundless Sea by Jason W. Smith Pdf

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.

Author : Andrew F. Charlton
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606960301

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The Ocean Is My Sky by Andrew F. Charlton Pdf

Gillian is happily swimming in the ocean when he sees a bird flying high in the sky above him. Immediately he wishes that he too were a bird that could soar freely through the air. Read The Ocean is My Sky and watch Gillian discover that the ocean is his own sky to play in and why God made everyone different for a reason. This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062860743

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And The Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Monster Calls comes a richly illustrated and lyrical tale, one that asks harrowing questions about power, loyalty, obsession, and the monsters we make of others. With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself... As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men. With the lush, atmospheric art of Rovina Cai woven in throughout, this remarkable work by Patrick Ness turns the familiar tale of Moby Dick upside down and tells a story all its own with epic triumph and devastating fate.

Author : Michael A. Verney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226818375

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A Great and Rising Nation by Michael A. Verney Pdf

A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States’ imperialist naval aspirations. Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael A. Verney’s A Great and Rising Nation flips this notion on its head, arguing that early US naval expeditions, often characterized as merely scientific, were in fact deeply imperialist. Circling the globe from the Mediterranean to South America and the Arctic, these voyages reflected the diverse imperial aspirations of the new republic, including commercial dominance in the Pacific World, religious empire in the Holy Land, proslavery expansion in South America, and diplomatic prestige in Europe. As Verney makes clear, the United States had global imperial aspirations far earlier than is commonly thought.

Author : R. Launius,J. Fleming,D. DeVorkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230114654

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Globalizing Polar Science by R. Launius,J. Fleming,D. DeVorkin Pdf

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.

Author : J.H. Lieske,Victor K. Abalakin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400906136

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Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky by J.H. Lieske,Victor K. Abalakin Pdf

IA U Symposium Number 141 "Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky" was held in Leningrad, USSR from 17-21 October 1989. The symposium also commemorated the 150th anniversary of the founding of Pulkovo Observatory. The scientific program was presented in ten half-day sessions. Most sessions were held at the Pulkovskaya Hotel, but one session which highlighted Pulkovo's current programs was held at Pulkovo Observatory. The sessions were organized into general categories pertaining to the legacy of Pulkovo for inertial systems; current programs at Pulkovo Observatory; concepts, definitions and models; and the realization and comparision of reference frames. More than 140 scientific papers were presented, either orally or in poster form. Extensive use was made of electronic mail and computer-readable communications, and more than two-thirds of the authors made use of the opportunity to submit papers for formatting by the editors. The meeting was truly a symposium in the Greek sense of the word-a free-flowing exchange of ideas and opinions. The final two papers presented at the symposium by Wilkins and by Westerhout are presented at an eady stage in the published proceedings, in order to help focus the reader's attention on the concepts and problems explored in subsequent papers. As pointed out by G.

Author : Alan D. Fiala,Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Astrometry
ISBN : UCSD:31822029806213

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Proceedings by Alan D. Fiala,Steven J. Dick Pdf

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226533254

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Secularism in Antebellum America by John Lardas Modern Pdf

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.

Author : David Alan Grier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691133829

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When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier Pdf

Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.

Author : John Lankford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136508271

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History of Astronomy by John Lankford Pdf

This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.

Author : Jimena Canales
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226093208

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A Tenth of a Second by Jimena Canales Pdf

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. Once scientists associated the tenth of a second with the speed of thought, they developed reaction time experiments with lasting implications for experimental psychology, physiology, and optics. Astronomers and physicists struggled to control the profound consequences of results that were a tenth of a second off. And references to the interval were part of a general inquiry into time, consciousness, and sensory experience that involved rethinking the contributions of Descartes and Kant. Considering its impact on much longer time periods and featuring appearances by Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Einstein, among others, A Tenth of a Second is ultimately an important contribution to history and a novel perspective on modernity.