Story of time: The Story of Time (Short 1951)

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The Story of Time (Short 1951)

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Mankind’s numerous ways of measuring the passage of time through history are depicted through stop-motion animation, from ancient sundials to simple mechanical devices, up through complex mo… Read allMankind’s numerous ways of measuring the passage of time through history are depicted through stop-motion animation, from ancient sundials to simple mechanical devices, up through complex modern timepieces.Mankind’s numerous ways of measuring the passage of time through history are depicted through stop-motion animation, from ancient sundials to simple mechanical devices, up through complex modern timepieces.

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Nice Start, But The ‘Time’ Begins To Drag

This is, as the title indicates, a history of how mankind developed different ways to measure time, beginning with sundials, all the way to the most modern methods which was the mid 20th century, when this British animated short was produced.

The sun dial simply kept track of where the sun was in the sky and helped break down the day into measurements. Then, other elements were used to make this more accurate, give us wrist watches, etc. It is stated in the introduction that “this film is a symbolic story of man’s progress in time measurement.” It’s educational more than entertaining but it gets a little too symbolic and begins to drag from the halfway point on, and winds up just plain boring. This was nominated for an Oscar for best one-reel short subject but I don’t think you’ll be entertained with it.

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Aristotle, who built physics on intellectual and even aesthetic principles, had a powerful influence on the development of European science: the Prime Mover was the beginning in his concept, the luminaries moved in circular orbits, bodies “preferred” a state of rest, and if they fell to the Earth, then at a constant speed. Since this was contrary to observation, Aristotle explained the acceleration in approaching the Earth as “jubilation”. Feelings and reason were attributed to objects even much later: even in the 17th century, Kepler claimed that the planets consciously fulfill the laws of motion prescribed by them. nine0003

On the basis of geometric calculations, Aristarchus (3rd century BC) established that the Sun is much larger than the Earth, and therefore assumed that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He also considered the stars to be distant suns. This theory was returned only in the 17th century: Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo, as a result of observations, laid the foundations of scientific physics and astronomy. Galileo conducted experiments with falling objects and saw the task of science in establishing quantitative relationships between phenomena. The concept of “Law” was formulated in the same 17th century by Descartes, Newton’s predecessor: he explained all phenomena from the movement of objects with a certain mass. nine0014 The law, according to Descartes, is executed always and everywhere. Descartes also raised the question of “initial conditions”: in order to determine the development of a system, one must know not only the laws, but also the initial state.

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