Evolution of Time Measurement in Astronomy

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Mar 2003

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Information Handling in Astronomy - Historical Vistas. Edited by André Heck, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France. Astrop

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Astronomical phenomena, such as the waxing and waning of the Moon, the succession of days and nights and the pattern of the seasons define a time which is basically cyclical. During many centuries, rather simple devices, such as water clocks or astrolabs and, later on, mechanical clocks, have been used by astronomers for defining realistic but low accuracy time scales. Lately, the atomic time, with its unprecedented precision, has open the way to a more accurate investigation of astronomical phenomena. From cyclical, the time of mankind has become definitely linear and the astronomers seem to have lost its control ...

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