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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year
Calendar Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year
Author: David Ewing Duncan
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 »
ISBN-13: 9780380975280
ISBN-10: 0380975289
Publication Date: 7/1/1998
Pages: 266
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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An informative narrative of the long development and still incomplete reckoning of time.
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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.


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