1976
DOI: 10.1017/s037346330003928x
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The Role of Time in Navigation

Abstract: Time is so much a part of everyday experience that no thought is normally given to the meaning of the word. The scientific measurement of a quantity such as time, however, requires the definition of a gauge as a standard of measurement that is reasonably invariant to human experience and the creation of a measurement language capable of independent empirical reproduction so that one laboratory can share experience with another using only a written language to do so.Time as a means of scientific measurement for… Show more

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“…Time is so much a part of daily experience that no thought is ordinarily given to its meaning; nevertheless, the scientific measurement of time interval requires the definition of a standard unit of measurement that is reasonably invariant to human experience [1]. Apparent celestial motions have been exalted through history as a preferred mode of reckoning time, evidenced by calendars based on recurring celestial phenomena and the fact that civil time of day has been based on solar time in one form or another since antiquity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Time is so much a part of daily experience that no thought is ordinarily given to its meaning; nevertheless, the scientific measurement of time interval requires the definition of a standard unit of measurement that is reasonably invariant to human experience [1]. Apparent celestial motions have been exalted through history as a preferred mode of reckoning time, evidenced by calendars based on recurring celestial phenomena and the fact that civil time of day has been based on solar time in one form or another since antiquity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%