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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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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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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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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Time Is Short and the Water Rises

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On Time and Water 9781788165518, 9781788165525

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'greek' and 'roman' in Latin Medical Texts: Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine (Studies in Ancient Medicine) [Approx. 416 Pp ed.] 9004242783, 9789004242784

Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. 'Greek' and 

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