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
Language: English


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 474

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
Eagleton, Catherine
Schaldach, Karlheinz
Archinard, Margarida
Bir, Atilla
Davis, John
Gouk, Penelope M.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Brill
Oxford University Press
Verlag Harri Deutsch
John Lamprey
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Time measuring instruments
Sundials
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Astrolabes
Technology
People
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn 'Ali ibn 'Iraq
al-Saghani, abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn
Finé, Oronce
Hartmann, Georg
Hooke, Robert
La Hire, Philippe de
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
17th century
19th century
10th century
11th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Great Britain
Ottoman Empire
China
Europe
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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