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Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography: Europe and Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography: Europe and Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1932
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

CONTENTS.--Vol. I (1897)--Vol. II (1898)--Vol. III (1899)--Vol. IV (1902)--Vol. V (1905)--Vol. VI (1906)--Vol. VII (1908)--Vol. VIII (1909)--Vol. IX (1911)--Vol. X (1918)--Vol. XI (1922)--Vol. XII (1928)--Vol. XIII (1937)--Vol. XIV (1941)

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1024

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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One Time Fits All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

One Time Fits All

One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1026

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.

Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Planning and Strategy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

National Planning and Strategy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1946
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents; Showing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the Institution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1076
Between Rhetoric and Reality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Between Rhetoric and Reality

"Felix Meritis, the remarkable 'Temple of Enlightenment', adorns the Amsterdam canals since 1788. The building accommodated the most ambitious attempt in the Netherlands for the integration of activities regarding literature, music, the visual arts, commerce, and the sciences. What so far went unnoticed is that, from the very start, Felix Meritis was also equipped with an astronomical and meteorological observatory. In fact, it was the first scientific observatory in the Netherlands designed from the drawing board. This book describes the history of the observatory (which functioned until 1889), with a special focus on the tensions between the objectives formulated by its founding fathers and the ultimate difficult practice of scientific research. The Felix Meritis-Observatory was crucial for the training and early careers of various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century astronomers, among which Nieuwland, Van Beeck Calkoen, Moll, Keijser, Uylenbroek, and Kaiser (the father of modern Dutch astronomy)."--Cover.