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Clock and Compass

Clock and Compass
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609388216

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"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight with US troops during the Spanish-American War. After the war he worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Farmers had started buying cars and trucks, but without adequate maps and signage townsfolk couldn't visit them and they couldn't easily find each other. Plato's solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city folk. He patented his invention and tried to sell it to the Post Office, which took a pass-their business was delivering mail, not facilitating travel. Because the clockface's hours provided the directions, he called his strategy the "Clock System." Some Chicago promoters became intrigued but after their plans failed to gel, he decided to produce the maps himself. Rural sociologists at Cornell, who considered the Clock System an antidote for rural isolation, encouraged him to start a business in Ithaca, where he mapped a dozen New York counties until the Great Depression intervened and he left to work as a government mapmaker in Washington. Between 1936 (after his patent had expired) and 1940, some Ithaca businessmen validated the concept by making "Compass System" maps for half the state's counties"--


On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass

On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass
Author: Derek J. de Solla Price
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass" by Derek J. de Solla Price. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Get a Compass Not a Clock

Get a Compass Not a Clock
Author: Cindy Kochis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9780557787395

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The Clock & the Compass

The Clock & the Compass
Author: Talee.org
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781502578273

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This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Talee throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Talee (www.talee.org) is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims.Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought! In addition, Talee aims at encouraging scholarship, research and enquiry through the use of technological facilitates. For a complete list of our published books please refer to our website (www.talee.org) or send us an email to [email protected]


Compass and Clock

Compass and Clock
Author: John Wilmerding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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"John Wilmerding focuses on three turning points - around 1800, when America began to find its identity as a republic; 1850, a self-confident period of prosperity and growth; and 1900, a time of anxiety over profound changes in the psychological as well as the physical dimension. The author provides stimulating discussions of the great works of these three periods - from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Portrait to Thoreau's Walden and George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri to The Education of Henry Adams and the late paintings of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer - finding common threads and complementary expressions in the images that writers and visual artists alike drew upon to convey the mood and vision of each distinctive era."--BOOK JACKET.


Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare

Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare
Author: Natalie Lord Rice Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN:

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Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare

Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare
Author: Natalie Rice Clark
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781497899155

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.


Compass and Clock

Compass and Clock
Author: David Sanders
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0804040702

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The poems of Compass and Clock take their inspiration from the intersection of the natural world and the human, exploring the landscapes in which those intersections occur. Those landscapes range from David Sanders’s native midwestern countryside to the caves of Lascaux and an enchanted lake where relics of lost lives are washed ashore. Yet, the true source of the poems’ vitality is Sanders’s attention to the missed or misread moments, those times when the act fails, and the perceived clashes with the actual. Here, the satisfying pairing of elegance and vulnerability invites the reader to tour those uncanny landscapes from which one returns irrevocably changed—refreshed, but wistful. In a review of his earlier limited-edition work, Time in Transit, the Hudson Review called David Sanders “a poet to watch.” With the Swallow Press publication of Compass and Clock, we have the realization of that promise.


The Clock and the Compass

The Clock and the Compass
Author: Q. Fatima
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781496090683

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This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world.You may read this book carefully and should you be interested to have further study on such publications you can contact us through www.shia.es Naturally, if we find you to be a keen and energetic reader we shall give you a deserving response in sending you some other publications of this Organization.


Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare

Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare
Author: Natalie Lord Rice Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781330994481

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Excerpt from Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare: A Compass-Clock Cipher This book tries to show that a cipher designed by Francis Bacon, and based on the union of a clock and compass in Dial form, exists in the First Folio of Shakespeare, printed in 1623. The Dial cipher is used as a literary framework for the plays, and is closely associated with the finest passages and allusions. It does not displace Baconian evidence already brought forward by others, and it does strengthen the force of many visible acrostics in the text, by showing their placements as they tally on the Dial chart. So far as I can find out, the Dial cipher has not been observed in any way before this, and therefore I am not able to give credit to some possible and unknown decipherer, who may long ago have seen it dimly. But to a few people here at Miami University, who have helped me, I may give my hearty thanks: to President and Mrs. Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes, whose point of view is always sympathetic and forward-looking; to Professor J. Belden Dennison for discriminating criticism during the progress of the cipher-tracking and for reading the manuscript; and to my husband, Professor Frank Lowry Clark, without whose steady cooperation and insistent scholarly method this book could not have been at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.