An expression of the passage of time, the hands - two elongated diamonds and an arrow - are stylised fragments of tattoos, set above a hypnotic
chronographic movement.
But it consists above all of a lengthy original composition, starting as a universal history comprising of miscellaneous geographical and
chronographic pieces, followed by an ordo Romanorum regum from Romulus to the Byzantine Emperor Tiberius III (d.
This argument placed the
chronographic tradition in Rus' as already having been established before the 1090s, which was the date of Shakhmatov's hypothetical Nachal 'nyi svod.
355) is not the edition of the Lehmann text in New York (although it is related to this document), but a
chronographic document in the British Museum.
Also, in terms of its technicality, the watch is Swiss made, automatically
chronographic (a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch) with Professional Grade scratch-resistant DLC plating, Anti-magnetic and comprises Anti-reflective sapphire crystal as well.
Given the frequent overlap between cartographic and
chronographic development there is much work to be done here.
If a metronome and a watch can together form "a psychological apparatus of the simplest kind," allowing scientists of music and poetry to measure conscious responses to "the intensity of successive beats," (45) then one could begin to understand the possibilities afforded by newer, more sensitive
chronographic equipment.
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chronographic: schedules, network diagrams, Gantt charts,
The text is supplemented with sixteen attractive color plates reproducing early modern cartographic and
chronographic views, and individual chapters are copiously illustrated with maps of urban expansion, population, distribution, etc.
With the founding of the Institut Minerva de Recherche en Haute Horlogerie, Montblanc has not only dedicated itself toward assuring the survival of a manufacture with a legendary
chronographic tradition: the mission of the Institut Minerva is to foster young talents whose new ideas will enrich the art of watchmaking, which they'll enliven with their innovative spirit and dynamism.
Bede's own computistical works, particularly the De temporibus, became the standard
chronographic texts until the tenth century, when Reform-era scholars and their heirs began a process of revision that would only accelerate in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.