Calendarios: la pista del tiempo
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Revistas


Australasian Science (incluye buscador)

November/December 1999, pages 26-28
2000 and all that (by David Bromage)
Historia de nuestro calendario.


Australasian Science

Spring 1994, page 41
Will 2000 be a leap year? (by Duncan Steel)


The Helix

No. 69, 1999, pages 10-14
Millennium madness (by Roger Beckmann)


No. 53, 1997, page 4
Timing a second
El National Measurement Laboratory de Sydney está desarrollando un nuevo patrón de frecuencia, básico para la medición del tiempo.


New Scientist

19/26 December 1998-2 January 1999, pages 74-75
The magic clock (by Sean Roberts)
Describe un reloj de gran tamaño que se mantendrá en hora durante los próximos 10.000 años.
(También disponible en http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/magicclock.html)


1 November 1997, pages 46-51
In the blink of an atom (by Jeremy Webb)
Describe los mecanismos que se utilizan para medir con precisión un segundo.
(También disponible en http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/blink.html)


Scientific American

April 1998, pages 89 and 91
The timekeeping ELF (by Philip Morrison)
Trata sobre el cronometraje de precisióon.
(También disponibleen http://www.sciam.com/1998/0498issue/0498wonders.html)

Información complementaria

Los siguientes enlaces hacen referencia a la Australian Academy of Science publications.


Environmental Science

Earth – the third planet (pages 30-32)


Mathematics at work: modelling your world, Vol. 2 (and accompanying Teachers Guide) 

Unit 33: Navigating a spherical Earth


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