Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science 9780198885191, 9780198885177, 0198885199

Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science 9780198885177, 0198885172

Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping te

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Analemmatic sundials – science and entertainment 9788674668795

The first five chapters of the book (I. Gnomonics: key terms; II. Coordinate geometry on the Earth and the celestial sph

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Of Clocks and Time 9781681740966, 9781681740324, 9781681742243

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The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time 9780228009634

The remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair – and how standard time almost didn’t happen. Until the

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Stop the Clocks!: Time And Narrative In Cinema 9780755693863, 9781848851757

The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinat

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Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval England (History of Science and Medicine Library, 13) [Illustrated] 9004176659, 9789004176652

Bringing together the surviving material and manuscript evidence, this book looks closely at a fascinating medieval sund

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On Time and Water 9781948830232

In the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers will melt, the level

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Robert Winston: The Story of Science: How Science and Technology Changed the World 9780241653937

Let Professor Robert Winston take you on a scientific journey through human history in this fact-packed science book. D

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Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Biomedical Science (Philosophy and Medicine, 90)

Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years. The vast majority

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Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity 9004105557, 9789004105553

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of med

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