Chrononyms and the Time Identity

This paper intends to argue that Chrononymy the denomination of time divisions have been only descriptive or designative because time is still far from being understood So this study of Chrononymy focuses on the examination of the names of temporal phenomena and its goal is to discover the initial motivation of a given chrononym as well as the moment and circumstances in which the primitive semantic layer was broken redirecting a new fluid of meaning through new ramifications of meanings or its semantic emptying It is assumed that the Chrononymy or way of naming the time used by civilizations reveals kinetic-astral space environmental religious and metaphorical motivations In this way Chrononymy would envelop descriptions of these phenomena from the perspective of the paradigms of each epoch which when uncovered rescues the basic scientific and anthropological reference of temporal identity eclipsed by continuous semantic emptying It is sought a theoretical anchor in authors as Bakhtin 1990 Dick 1990 1998 Piettre 1997 among others and analyze etymology and historical-semantic flow for terms like second minute week month year century age and its chrononimic subdivisions with the purpose of identifying the nominee s motivation

Rayed Arcs and the ‘Rory Bory Aylis’: Primary World Aurorae and Tolkien’s \u27Father Christmas Letters\u27

Previous research has demonstrated that Tolkien was well-versed and well-practiced in the use of etiological myths in his world-building activities. But we should remember that Middle-earth was not his sole Secondary World; in fact, one of the most interesting can be found at Tolkien’s version of the North Pole, in his Father Christmas Letters. As might be expected of Tolkien the impressive collection of astronomy in the letters is largely scientifically accurate, especially concerning the aurora borealis, the northern lights. This paper explores the instances of auroral references (in text and illustration) in the Father Christmas Letters and connects them to real-world etiological myths and folklore as well as actual auroral displays visible in England, demonstrating how closely Tolkien’s depictions follow scientific reality despite their whimsical nature

Jan Jędrzejewicz ‒ a professional among amateur astronomers

Jan Jędrzejewicz was an eminent Polish amateur astronomer. He lived and worked as a doctor in a small town of Płońsk, situated 60 km of Warsaw. His great passion was astronomy and he devoted his all free time to it. After gaining essential knowledge, he built observatory, which he professionally equipped with his own funds. The main subject of his work was micrometer measurements of double stars, to which he applied himself with unusual precision and diligence. This was appreciated by an American astronomer S.W. Burnham, who included these results in his catalogue of double stars. Jędrzejewicz also observed the Sun, comets, planets and other sky phenomena, and the results of his works were published in the international journals: “Astronomische Nachrichten” and “Vierteljahrsschrift Astronomischen Ggesellschaft”. Noteworthy in his papers are extremely thorough investigation of the subject and a great number of references to papers of contemporaneous professional astronomers. Jędrzejewicz aroused interest of the scientific world, which was demonstrated by the fact that information about him appeared several times in the journal “Nature”