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Calendar: Humanityªs Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
Calendar Humanitys 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: 9780756750121
ISBN-10: 0756750121
Publication Date: 6/1998
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Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed Calendar: Humanityªs Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year on + 18 more book reviews
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.