Ticking Clock: Signed (4 results)
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on front endpage.
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Published by Rostock 2022
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Seller: Archiv Fuenfgiebelhaus, Rostock, , GermanyArchiv Fuenfgiebelhaus
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Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 55 pages, 30 x 21 cm, author's signature on front leaf, otherwise fine. - - Contents: A Most Unusual Clock. - 1. General Information: The City of Rostock. - The Church of St. Mary in Rostock. - The Astronomical Clock. - - 2. How to Read the Astronomical Clock: The Clock Disk. - The Cal…endar Disk. - Automaton and Music Work. - Further Design Elements. - The Clock's Inner Workings: The Invisible Part. - Time Span for Which the Calendar Data are Good. - On what day of the week was I born? - - 3. Time and Time Units: What is Time? - How to Measure Time. - Time Units for the Calendar. - The Dilemma of All Calendars. - Time Units for Partitioning of the Day. - - 4. The Development of Our Present Calendar: The Julian Calendar. - The Gregorian Calendar Reform. - Is there a More Accurate Way? - What About a Decimal System for Time? - Some Calendar Peculiarities. - Computation of the Date of Easter. - - 5. The Development of Clocks: Early Methods of Assessing Time. - Mechanical Clocks. - Electrons and Atoms. - Why Ever More Accuracy? - - 6. The Baltic Sea, The Hanseatic League, and a Master Clockmaker: The Hanseatic League. - The Urban Community. - The Clockmaker. - - 7. Reference Materials. Signatur des Verfassers.
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 1998
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Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.MLC Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A sudden change in tenure requirements sends an assistant professor on a search for a quick research project, one that comes with big conflict of interest. Second printing. Gently bumped. Opens a bit too readily to the title page, where French has inscribed "To…George - May we always see eye to eye, in the Murdochian way. Love, Blaire." Jacket shows light wear at the edges, spine a bit sunned, in Brodart. Inscribed By the Author.
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Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United KingdomYare Books
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Softcover. Condition: As New. No Cover. Signed by the Author.
