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Chaos in the Heavens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Chaos in the Heavens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-03-12
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

"If you want to understand the long path to the climate crisis, read this book." –Deborah Coen, Professor of History and the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the Conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth ...

A Tenth of a Second
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

A Tenth of a Second

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. ...

Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 686

Nature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin of the Public Library
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 850

Bulletin of the Public Library

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

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Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library

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

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Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...

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

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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine

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

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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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