Speaker’s Book
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The Time Lords: Personifying Time
Online:
- Theogony by Hesiod
- Bhagavad Gita
- Carl Sagan and Alan Watts clips on Soundcloud – Soundcloud.com
Print:
- American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
- The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
- The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen
- Promethea, by Alan Moore
The Travails of Time Travel
Print:
- A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
- A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories, by Ray Bradbury
- Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku
- Encyclopedia of Time, by Samuel L. Macey
- Einstein’s Brainchild : Relativity Made Relatively Easy, by Barry Parker
- The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics, by David Toomey
- Chronos: How Time Shapes Our Universe, by Etienne Klein
Film/TV
Pope Gregory & the Computus
Online:
- Inter Gravissimas by Pope Gregory XIII (the papal bull that laid out the change to the new calendar)
- The Calendar (for calculating the date of Easter in just 33 easy arithmetical operations and 9 simple variables) – David Madore
- Date of Easter – dateofeaster.org
Print:
- The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600, by Alfred W. Crosby
- Cæsar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History, by Denis Feeney
- Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, by Duncan Steel
John Harrison: Understanding Three Dimensions with the Fourth Dimension
Online:
- Board of Longitude – Cambridge Digital Library
- Longitude Found: John Harrison – Royal Museums Greenwich
- Clockmaker John Harrison Vindicated 250 Years After ‘Absurd’ Claims – The Guardian
Print:
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel
- Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude, by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt
- Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude, by Louise Borden
Film:
AntikytheWHAT?
Online:
- The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
- Exhibition on the Antikythera Shipwreck – National Archeological Museum in Athens
Print:
- Gears From the Greeks, by Derek De Solla Price
- The Shipwreck of Antikythera, by Charles Barbosa
- Decoding the Heavens: a 2000-Year Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets, by Jo Marchant
The Sun Dagger: Ancient Calendars & the Cycle of the Moon
Online:
- The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (film) – PBS
- The Mystery of Chaco Canyon Study Guide – Bullfrog Films
Print:
- The Orion Zone, by Gary A. David
- New Light on Chaco Canyon, David Grant Noble (editor)
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Michael Sollazzo, Egan Hirvela, Besha Grey, John Adams, Eva Galperin, and Paige Lawrence. Thank you!
