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Time and place connection -- Navigating at sea -- Navigating in the air -- Navigating in space -- Inventing satellite navigation -- Navigation for everyone -- Where are we headed? "If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. This surprising connection between time…
"Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible precision.The classical idea of…
Time and the Eternal City / Tuomas Heikkilä -- Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome / Saku Pihko -- The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power / Jasmin Lukkari -- Time Set in Stone: t…
"Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnect…
The measures -- Theorists, thinkers, and opinions -- The physics -- The cognitive senses -- Living rhythms. What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its conne…
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of ""lost time"" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust. Its starting point is the archival disc…