> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 4:09 PM > To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton' > > > > In Fuller's (RBF's) lexicon, some of which I've adopted, per > Synergetics > > > Dictionary (EJA), we speak of the East India Company > > > > Yeah those folks are a big part of the story. > > > > Correctamundo. Especially in Japan.
What it boiled down to is the in the time these shots were getting called the most advanced technology available to allow a decent determination of what was when, which is intimately tied to the question of what is where (longitude measurement, etc.) - was the underwater cabling. The history of the East India Company was the main reason that the Brits laid and controlled the bulk of those cables. So that even the French had in the end to go to through the Brits infrastructure when they wanted to map there own Empire. Which in the end gave the Brits the power to call the shots as to what time it is in Tokyo today. All of which - BTW - is only a sub-thread of the Galison book. Which is more directly about the efforts to apply technology to precision timekeeping and its direct relation to the formation of theoretical physics - most directly the contributions of Poincare and Einstein. Turns out that the fact that Einstein happened to get a day job in a patent office in Switzerland - where the timekeeping action has always been - seems to have been the kind of serendipity that contributes to a Leap Forward. That day job got him to where he got much more directly than it is generally understood. Which doesn't even yet touch on the Poincare thread - which is the heart of the book. Good read. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
