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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780380975280
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Not Available
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
- Item Height
- 1.1in.
- Item Length
- 11.1in.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Width
- 6.1in.
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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 historic personages from Julius Caesar to Omar Khayyam, and giants of science from Galileo and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking. Our present calendar system predates the invention of the telescope, the mechanical clock, and the concept ol zero and its development is one of the great untold stories of science and history. How did Pope Gregory set right a calendar which was in error by at least ten lull days? What did time mean to a farmer on the Rhine in 800 A.D.' What was daily life like in the Middle Ages, when the general population reckoned births and marriages by seasons, wars, kings'' reigns, and saints' days? In short, how did the world
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0380975289
ISBN-13
9780380975280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
818663
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Not Available
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.1in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
6.1in.
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ce6.D86 1998
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
General, Time, Astronomy
Lccn
98-010434
Dewey Decimal
529.309
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science, Référence, History
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