The Science of Time 2016 [E-Book] : Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future / edited by Elisa Felicitas Arias, Ludwig Combrinck, Pavel Gabor, Catherine Hohenkerk, P. Kenneth Seidelmann
The uses of time in astronomy - from pointing telescopes, coordinating and processing observations, predicting ephemerides, cultures, religious practices, history, businesses, determining Earth orientation, analyzing time-series data and in many other ways - represent a broad sample of how time is u...
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Personal Name(s): | Arias, Elisa Felicitas, editor |
Combrinck, Ludwig, editor / Gabor, Pavel, editor / Hohenkerk, Catherine, editor / Seidelmann, P. Kenneth, editor | |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2017. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2017
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Physical Description: |
X, 394 pages 169 illustrations, 136 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783319599090 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0 |
Series Title: |
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Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ;
50 |
Subject (LOC): |
- The scientific and technical uses of time and time series data
- The civil and scientific understanding of time - education andoutreach
- The history of time and timepieces, clocks and calendars
- Social, cultural, and religious uses of timing information·High-precision time from sundials and the pendulum to atomic clocksand pulsars
- Impact of precise time and frequency measurement in astronomy & basic science
- Earth rotation and time Time and solar-system ephemerides
- The physics of time.