THEATER OF TIME
The Gottlieb Transit Corridor Griffith Observatory
de Bruce Bohannan
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In an era when time from atomic clocks is delivered automatically to our computers and mobile telephones, we easily forget where time comes from.
Time is based on the motion of the sun in the sky. Each day, when the sun is at its highest elevation, the local time is local or solar noon. A "zero-point" of time is the noontime transit of the sun over a meridian.
A work of art and architecture, the Meridian Instrument is a precision astronomical device to tell time in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California.
More than a scientific instrument, in the Transit Corridor architecture and astronomy fuse into a theather of time as the earth turns the sun each day to the meridian at local noon.
53 photographs.
Time is based on the motion of the sun in the sky. Each day, when the sun is at its highest elevation, the local time is local or solar noon. A "zero-point" of time is the noontime transit of the sun over a meridian.
A work of art and architecture, the Meridian Instrument is a precision astronomical device to tell time in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California.
More than a scientific instrument, in the Transit Corridor architecture and astronomy fuse into a theather of time as the earth turns the sun each day to the meridian at local noon.
53 photographs.
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- Categoría principal: Medicina y ciencias
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Características: Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
N.º de páginas: 108 - Fecha de publicación: ene. 25, 2012
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