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Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.

Time --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Sociological aspects --- History --- Social aspects --- Sex differences --- Gender, history of time, temporality, early modern cultural studies. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699

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The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow of the big bang—known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB—and how their findings are transforming our view of the cosmos.Blending the latest findings in cosmology with essential concepts from physics, Lyman Page first helps readers to grasp the sheer enormity of the universe, explaining how to understand the history of its formation and evolution in space and time. Then he sheds light on how spatial variations in the CMB formed, how they reveal the age, size, and geometry of the universe, and how they offer a blueprint for the formation of cosmic structure.Not only does Page explain current observations and measurements, he describes how they can be woven together into a unified picture to form the Standard Model of Cosmology. Yet much remains unknown, and this incisive book also describes the search for ever deeper knowledge at the field's frontiers—from quests to understand the nature of neutrinos and dark energy to investigations into the physics of the very early universe.

Cosmology. --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- A Brief History of Time. --- Albert Einstein. --- Alex Vilenkin. --- An Astronomer’s Guide. --- Arno Allan Penzias. --- Bernhard Riemann. --- CMB anisotropy. --- Cosmology for the Curious. --- Delia Perlov. --- Hubble space telescope. --- James Peebles. --- Jer Yu. --- Jo Dunkley. --- Max Planck. --- Milky Way. --- NASA. --- Our Universe. --- Planck map. --- Planck satellite. --- Planck space telescope. --- Rashid Sunyaev. --- Robert Woodrow Wilson. --- Stephen Hawking. --- WMAP satellite. --- Zel’dovich. --- blackbodies. --- blackbody radiation. --- cosmological constant. --- dark energy. --- dark matter. --- electromagnetic spectrum. --- the expanding universe.