Book ID: CBB380726170

Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium (2019)

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Schechner, Sara Jane (Editor)


Adler Planetarium, Chicago


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 474
Language: English

Time of Our Lives sheds light on Adler Planetarium's sundials, which are approached as historically and culturally contextualized artifacts that testify to changes in society, knowledge, aesthetics, and above all, in the deep and complex human relationship with time, which has long kept us connected to the sky above

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Review Richard Dunn (2020) Review of "Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 123-124). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Schaldach, Karlheinz
Eagleton, Catherine
Zhang, Yang
Wright, M. T.
Turner, Anthony J.
Talbert, Richard J. A.
Concepts
Time measuring instruments
Sundials
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Technology
Astrolabes
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
19th century
17th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Early modern
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Greece
Rome (Italy)
Beijing (China)
Strasbourg (France)
Nanjing (China)
Mecklenburg (Germany)
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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