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Search - Calendar: : Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year
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Calendar Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year Author: The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world's official timekeeper since the 1960s. We visit cultures from Vedic India and Cleopatra's Egypt to Byzantium and the Elizabethan court; and meet an impressive cast of hist... more »
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Zale A. (moncar) reviewed Calendar: : Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year on + 24 more book reviews
What a great book. Combines the history of the calendar throughout history. It is fascinating to see how we are really ruled by time and how time has played out throughout the ages.
Genres:
- History >> World >> General
- Science & Math >> Astronomy & Space Science >> Astronomy
- Science & Math >> Physics >> Time