How the World Is Measured. Astronomical and Surveying Instruments

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

How the World Is Measured. Astronomical and Surveying Instruments

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The catalogue is divided into nine chapters according to the structure of the exhibition: 1. Time measurement, 2. Astrometry, 3. Telescope and observation technology, 4. Navigation, 5. Angle measurement, 6. Height measurement, 7. Distance measurement, 8. Photogrammetry and scanning, 9. Drawing and calculating tools. The catalogue also presents colourful stories from history, such as the collaboration between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, or how the director of the observatory at Clementinum Ladislaus Weinek was involved in the discovery of the movement of the Earth's rotational pole, or how the Father Martin Alois David measured the geographical coordinates of the borders and mountains of Bohemia by exploding gunpowder kegs at the summit of Sněžka, or how he performed triangulation using a sextant from observation posts in the treetops, or how difficult it was to unify the geodetic foundations of Czechoslovakia. Amusing stories also took place abroad. ‘These damned astronomers robbed me of more territory than my generals won for me,’ King Louis XIV of France allegedly said when astronomers presented him with a map of France that had ‘shrunk’ by about a tenth based on correctly, astronomically mea­sured, geographical coordinates. A century later, during the French Revolution, Pierre Méchain and his colleagues were imprisoned for a time while measuring the length of the meridian as the basis for the definition of the metre. The reason was that the revolutionaries thought his geodetic devices were a special kind of weapon. Measurement has always been part of our lives. The catalogue of the exhibition ‘How the World Is Measured’ at the National Technical Museum in Prague demonstrates how the originally purely scientific technology spread into normal life, and that, for example, the radio­‐controlled clock, satellite car navigation and map applications and images from the largest terrestrial and space telescopes on the Internet are the result of the long historical development of the scientific disciplines of astronomy and geodesy.

Název v anglickém jazyce

How the World Is Measured. Astronomical and Surveying Instruments

Popis výsledku anglicky

The catalogue is divided into nine chapters according to the structure of the exhibition: 1. Time measurement, 2. Astrometry, 3. Telescope and observation technology, 4. Navigation, 5. Angle measurement, 6. Height measurement, 7. Distance measurement, 8. Photogrammetry and scanning, 9. Drawing and calculating tools. The catalogue also presents colourful stories from history, such as the collaboration between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, or how the director of the observatory at Clementinum Ladislaus Weinek was involved in the discovery of the movement of the Earth's rotational pole, or how the Father Martin Alois David measured the geographical coordinates of the borders and mountains of Bohemia by exploding gunpowder kegs at the summit of Sněžka, or how he performed triangulation using a sextant from observation posts in the treetops, or how difficult it was to unify the geodetic foundations of Czechoslovakia. Amusing stories also took place abroad. ‘These damned astronomers robbed me of more territory than my generals won for me,’ King Louis XIV of France allegedly said when astronomers presented him with a map of France that had ‘shrunk’ by about a tenth based on correctly, astronomically mea­sured, geographical coordinates. A century later, during the French Revolution, Pierre Méchain and his colleagues were imprisoned for a time while measuring the length of the meridian as the basis for the definition of the metre. The reason was that the revolutionaries thought his geodetic devices were a special kind of weapon. Measurement has always been part of our lives. The catalogue of the exhibition ‘How the World Is Measured’ at the National Technical Museum in Prague demonstrates how the originally purely scientific technology spread into normal life, and that, for example, the radio­‐controlled clock, satellite car navigation and map applications and images from the largest terrestrial and space telescopes on the Internet are the result of the long historical development of the scientific disciplines of astronomy and geodesy.

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/DG18P02OVV054" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV054: Zeměměřické a astronomické přístroje používané na území ČR od 16. do konce 20. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-80-7037-362-0

Počet stran knihy

348

Název nakladatele

Národní technické muzeum; Výzkumný ústav geodetický topografický a kartografický v. v. i.

Místo vydání

Praha

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