So, documentation of cultural resources becomes a 4D mapping exercise?
GIS with time.  Just leave the blanks, leave them for other researchers
to fill?  Sure!  But that's an 80yard pass play.  I just want to make a
first down.

-jc


On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

> "Einstein's Clocks, Poincares Maps: Empires of Time" Peter Galison.
> Galison on C-Span Booknotes yesterday.
>
> Poincare, the French mathematician plotted all sorts of data, including
> his colds.
> He started with mapping of coal mines, then went on to mapping the
> world.
> Synchronisation of clocks was vital to accurate geographic measure.
> Einstein working in the Swiss patent office was quite familiar with
> problems of clocks.
> Plotting of information provided new ways to see... leading to new ways
> to see time and space.
> Resulting in relativity and chaos theory.
> It is an interesting presentation by Galison leading into a vision of
> the interconnected global communications systems that we use every day.
>
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