The Science of Time 2016

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Cosmic Time: From the Big Bang to the Eternal Future
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   Chapter 2 The Proof of the Pudding
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   Chapter 3 The Role of Ephemerides from Ptolemy to Kepler
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   Chapter 4 How Time Served to Measure the Geographical Position Since Hellenism
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   Chapter 5 Changing Times in the Nautical Almanac Over 250 Years
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   Chapter 6 Bond Time: The Electric Method of Time Recording
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   Chapter 7 The Development and Use of the Pilkington and Gibbs Heliochronometer and Sol Horometer
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   Chapter 8 These Are Not Your Mother’s Sundials: Or, Time and Astronomy’s Authority
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    Chapter 9 The History of Time
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    Chapter 10 “When?” It’s a Basic Question That We Ask All the Time
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    Chapter 11 Inter-site Alignments of Prehistoric Shrines in Chaco Canyon to the Major Lunar Standstill
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    Chapter 12 Atomic Time Scales and Their Applications in Astronomy
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    Chapter 13 Relativistic Time at the US Naval Observatory
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    Chapter 14 Real-Time Realization of UTC at Observatoire de Paris
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    Chapter 15 Time in Television Systems
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    Chapter 16 From Computer Time to Legal Civil Time: IANA tz, IETF tzdist, etc.
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    Chapter 17 The UT1 and UTC Time Services Provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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    Chapter 18 On a Redefinition of the SI Second
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    Chapter 19 Time Scales Steered by Optical Clocks
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    Chapter 20 Activities of Time and Frequency Metrology at NICT: Optical and Microwave Frequency Standards and Their Remote Comparisons
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    Chapter 21 IAU Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (SOFA): Time and Date
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    Chapter 22 Earth’s Variable Clock
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    Chapter 23 The Determination of Earth Orientation by VLBI and GNSS: Principles and Results
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    Chapter 24 Status of the Gaia Mission
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    Chapter 25 Time Synchronization and the Origins of GPS
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    Chapter 26 DASCH for Days to Decades Time Domain Astronomy
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    Chapter 27 Mean Solar Time and Its Connection to Universal Time
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    Chapter 28 How Gravity and Continuity in UT1 Moved the Greenwich Meridian
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    Chapter 29 Aspects of Time as It Relates to Space Geodesy
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    Chapter 30 Pulsars: Celestial Clocks
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    Chapter 31 The Leap Second Debate: Rational Arguments vs. Unspoken Unease
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    Chapter 32 How to Talk to the Public About the Leap Second? The Experience of the IERS Central Bureau
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    Chapter 33 The Problem of Leap Seconds
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    Chapter 34 Common Calendar: Fixed-Epoch Deterministic UTC-Based Local Timescales
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    Chapter 35 The Transfer of Earth-Time to the Planets
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    Chapter 36 Keeping Time with the Asteroids
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    Chapter 37 Long-Term Timekeeping in the Clock of the Long Now
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    Chapter 38 Aspects of Time Distribution
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    Chapter 39 Time Critical: Contesting the Measure of the Now
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    Chapter 40 Timescale Pluralism and Sciences of Time
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    Chapter 41 Liberating Clocks: Exploring Other Possible Futures
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    Chapter 42 New Technologies and the Future of Timekeeping
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    Chapter 43 Are Clocks Enough? Science, Philosophy, and Time
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    Chapter 44 Time Warped: Photography, History, and Temporality