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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Newton Roger G"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Galileo's pendulum [[electronic resource] ] : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / / Roger G. Newton"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-674-26624-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-674-04148-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (166 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"529/.7"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Time measurements"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Pendulum"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-145) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms -- 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers -- 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats -- 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature -- 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping -- 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum -- 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere -- 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks--contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo's Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces--from marine chronometers to atomic clocks--based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their "]
[{"$nulls":4},"function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum's oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton's equations of motion, from Pythagoras' theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday's field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo's Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Biological Timekeeping: The Body's Rhythms 2. The Calendar: Different Drummers 3. Early Clocks: Home-Made Beats 4. The Pendulum Clock: The Beat of Nature 5. Successors: Ubiquitous Timekeeping 6. Isaac Newton: The Physics of the Pendulum 7. Sound and Light: Oscillations Everywhere 8. The Quantum: Oscillators Make Particles Notes References Index Reviews of this book: The range of things that measure time, from living creatures to atomic clocks, brackets Newton's intriguing narrative of time's connections, in the middle of which stands Galileo's famous discovery about pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time.--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist"]
[null,"2.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910554826403321"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East / / edited by Ted Kaizer"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2021]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2021"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-119-03742-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-119-03729-8"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-119-03735-2"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Blackwell companions to the Ancient world"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"939.404"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Civilization - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Middle East Civilization To 622 Historiography"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Middle East"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"The origins of this volume go back to a time before the civil wars in the Middle East led to unprecedented destruction of the heritage from the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Levantine lands. In the meantime, our field of research will probably have been changed for ever. It is to be hoped that a lasting peace will eventually be there to enjoy for the long-suffering population of the region. At the outset, I must thank Al Bertrand, then Editorial Director for Social Science and Humanities Books at Wiley-Blackwell, for commissioning this Companion. Had I known at the time the mammoth task which editing a project of this size involved, I would surely have turned down his invitation ... In the years since then, I have dealt with various members from the team at Wiley-Blackwell, and am grateful for the support of Kelley Baylis, Janani Govindankutty, Haze Humbert, Allison Kostka, Ajith Kumar, Jennifer Manias, Roshna Mohan, Elizabeth Saucier, Niranjana Vallavan, and Galen Young-Smith. In particular, I should like to acknowledge the guidance, patience and kindness of Todd Green, Andrew Minton and Skyler Van Valkenburgh, who together oversaw the final stage of the process\"--"]