The Calendar
The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
$27.46
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1999
Summary
The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.
Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward. The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544 (Buddhist), 6236 (Ancient Egyptian), 5761 (Jewish) or simply the year of the Dragon (Chinese). The story of the creation of the Western calendar is a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857029796 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857029798 |
| Author: | David Ewing Duncan |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | 4th Estate |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 353g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 126mm x 178mm |
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David Ewing Duncan
David Ewing Duncan is a writer and traveller. The author of three previous books, this is his first UK publication. He is also the curator of the Smithsonian exhibition of The Calendar.
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