scholarly journals In search of lost time: Javanese and Balinese understandings of the Indic calendar

2008 ◽  
Vol 163 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Proudfoot
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Phases Of The Moon

The history of calendars is best approached as a technical subject that has cultural and political dimensions. The functions of calendars – to enumerate days, months and years – can be achieved in a variety of ways. In broad terms Muslims expect their calendars to predict the phases of the moon, Christians expect their calendars to match the seasons of the year, and Hindus and Chinese expect their calendars to do both. These expectations can be met by different technical means, so that even among those who subscribe to a common set of expectations, there are invariably differences in the working calendars.

scholarly journals History of the Teaching of Astronomy in American High Schools

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 249-253
Author(s):  
Darrel B. Hoff
Keyword(s):  
Physical Geography ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Early American ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Phases Of The Moon ◽  
Practical Nature

Early American colonists had a deep interest in astronomy. Between 1725 and 1764, Nathaniel Ames published the Astronomical Diary and Almanac at Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was a brief, widely-circulated source of astronomical information. It averaged an amazing 60,000 sales per year, while the better known Poor Richard’s Almanac distributed only about 10,000 per year (Noble, 1970).Practical skills were the dominant theme in early colonial schools. The astronomy that was taught dealt with natural phenomena such as phases of the moon, eclipses, and, for practical purposes, navigation and time-keeping. Astronomy was also frequently taught as a part of what we today would call physical geography courses. This practical nature of our culture dominated American schools until about the middle of the 1800’s. Astronomy, as a separate subject, did appear in the curriculum of academies — forerunners of the modern American high school. A popular textbook of this period, An Easy Introduction to Astronomy For Young Gentlemen and Ladies, by James Ferguson, dated 1817, illustrates this point. It is almost completely devoted to the explanation of natural phenomena (Ferguson, 1817). It is a charming book, taught in classic dialogue form between the teacher and his students.

Time Lost, Time Regained: Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
Lost Time

This article discusses Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which, though not enthusiastically received by audiences at the time, has subsequently become a work highly valued by critics and cineastes. Radically cut from its original four-part structure by the studio, it has come to be perceived as a film about loss. This relates both to its themes – suppressed love, the vanished world of Holmes and Watson – and to the history of the film itself, whose missing episodes exist only in fragmentary form. The first part of the essay looks at the ways in which the film constructs an image of Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Stephen), with a focus on the question of his sexuality, while the second part turns to the ways in which the film became an ‘obsession’ for one writer in particular, the novelist Jonathan Coe.

Early accretional history of the Earth and the Moon-forming event

Lithos ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 207-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Ross Taylor
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

A Brief History of the Moon

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
John Skoyles
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
History Of

The history of the core dynamos of Mars and the Moon inferred from their crustal magnetization: a brief review

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 917-931
Author(s):  
Jafar Arkani-Hamed
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
Positive Mass ◽  
Polar Wander ◽  
The Core ◽  
True Polar Wander ◽  
History Of ◽  
Giant Impacts ◽  
Crustal Magnetization ◽  
Multiple Impact ◽  
Thermochemical Convection

The core dynamos of Mars and the Moon have distinctly different histories. Mars had no core dynamo at the end of accretion. It took ∼100 Myr for the core to create a strong dynamo that magnetized the martian crust. Giant impacts during 4.2–4.0 Ga crippled the core dynamo intermittently until a thick stagnant lithosphere developed on the surface and reduced the heat flux at the core–mantle boundary, killing the dynamo at ∼3.8 Ga. On the other hand, the Moon had a strong core dynamo at the end of accretion that lasted ∼100 Myr and magnetized its primordial crust. Either precession of the core or thermochemical convection in the mantle or chemical convection in the core created a strong core dynamo that magnetized the sources of the isolated magnetic anomalies in later times. Mars and the Moon indicate dynamo reversals and true polar wander. The polar wander of the Moon is easier to explain compared to that of Mars. It was initiated by the mass deficiency at South Pole Aitken basin, which moved the basin southward by ∼68° relative to the dipole axis of the core field. The formation of mascon maria at later times introduced positive mass anomalies at the surface, forcing the Moon to make an additional ∼52° degree polar wander. Interaction of multiple impact shock waves with the dynamo, the abrupt angular momentum transfer to the mantle by the impactors, and the global overturn of the core after each impact were probably the factors causing the dynamo reversal.

The Mausoleum of Youth: Between Experience and Nihilism in Benjamin's Berlin Childhood

Paragraph ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
The Moon ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Key sections of Walter Benjamin's montage-text Berlin Childhood around 1900 figure the relationship between human experience and modern media, with the sections that frame the text, ‘Loggias’ and ‘The Moon’, structured around metaphors of photography. Drawing on the work of Siegfried Kracauer, and especially his seminal essay ‘Photography’, Benjamin develops, in the course of his book, a theory of photography's relationship to experience that runs counter to the better-known theories developed in such essays as ‘Little History of Photography’ and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility’, theories that are part of the broad currents of technological utopianism and, as such, emphasize photography's transformative potentials. In the Berlin Childhood, Benjamin instead emphasizes photography's role in the mortification and annihilation of meaningful human experience. Photography emerges here as the mausoleum of youth and hope.

INTRODUCTION

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
The Moon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple

This is the twenty-fifth Special Section published in Ancient Mesoamerica, and therefore it represents something of a milestone in the history of the journal. The goal has been to present in each special section a collection of related papers from a single project or region or on a selected topic to provide readers a tightly integrated summary of current research and interpretations. Certainly one of the most compelling and provocative special sections we have published was “Urban Archaeology at Teotihuacan” which appeared in vol. 2, no. 1 (1991). This collection of papers featured two stunning articles on the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, then often referred to as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Constructed in the early third century A.D., the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, along with the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid, was one of the three most powerful monuments in the sacred urban landscape of Teotihuacan. Rubén Cabrera Castro, Saburo Sugiyama, and George L. Cowgill (1991) reported on excavations in the 1980s of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid and the investigation of more than 137 sacrificial burials, including more than 70 males identified as soldiers because of associated offerings, discovered at the base of and underneath the pyramid. In the second article, Alfredo López Austin, Leonardo López Luján, and Saburo Sugiyama (1991) presented their brilliant iconographic analysis of the sculptural facades of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, arguing that the monumental structure was dedicated to the myth of the origin of time and calendric succession, a tangible cosmogonic proclamation that Teotihuacan was “the place where time began.”

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