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Category : Nautical almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...
Author: A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at Göttingen: v. 1-4. Books printed between 1701 and 1800
Author: Bernhard FabianPublisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
Author: Great Britain. Nautical Almanac OfficePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Star Territory
Author: Gordon FraserPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
A Catalogue of English Books. Printed before 1801. Held by the University Library at Göttingen
Author: Graham P. Jefcoate M.A.Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 3487156172
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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