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As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling …
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0(deg), which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian's location in southeast …
Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"e;Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting …
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 …