W N Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1806319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W N Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | W N |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW W N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1888 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise
Visiting ruins, I enjoy the texture of the weathered stones. The wide space, colored in spring by wildflowers. Open space and vistas, the heady smell of grasses drying in the hot sun. Birds sing as they have since Plato's cicadas. Once, alone near the ruins, I heard a strange rhythmic clicking in the grass: two tortoises making love. The ruins that I visit remind me of antiquity not because I picture Socrates walking through the Stoa, but because…
The Gulf Stream
Is the Earth Drying up
Forecasting Weather
Weather
The Burial of Olympia
On the Notes Sounded by Mr. Galton's Whistles for Testing the Limit of Audibility of Sound
W. N. Shaw, On the Notes Sounded by Mr. Galton's Whistles for Testing the Limit of Audibility of Sound, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 17 (1888), pp. 181-185
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On the Notes Sounded by Mr. Galton's Whistles for Testing the Limit of Audibility of Sound
W. N. Shaw, On the Notes Sounded by Mr. Galton's Whistles for Testing the Limit of Audibility of Sound, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 17 (1888), pp. 181-185
The Burial of Olympia
Weather
Forecasting Weather
The Gulf Stream
Is the Earth Drying up
How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise
Visiting ruins, I enjoy the texture of the weathered stones. The wide space, colored in spring by wildflowers. Open space and vistas, the heady smell of grasses drying in the hot sun. Birds sing as they have since Plato's cicadas. Once, alone near the ruins, I heard a strange rhythmic clicking in the grass: two tortoises making love. The ruins that I visit remind me of antiquity not because I picture Socrates walking through the Stoa, but because…
Geology (4 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Active listening (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work)