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Mapping Time - The Calendar and its History (Paperback, Revised)
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Mapping Time - The Calendar and its History (Paperback, Revised)
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In this fascinating history of the accounting and charting of time,
Richards describes the development of each of the most important
calendars of the world, ancient and modern. He examines their
astronomical background, the ways in which weeks, months and years
were calculated in different societies and the long struggle over
the centuries to agree a standard calendar (which did not happen
until 1949). From the 'time maps' of prehistory and the ancient
Egyptians to the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the sweep of this
book is immense and its detail absorbing. (Kirkus UK)
Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times.Containing chapters on the nature of calendars and on their astronomical background, on the history of writing and counting, on the week, and on the history of calendar reform, this fascinating and highly entertaining book is the perfect guide to understanding the background of time in the run up to the Millennium.
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