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The Calendar
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The Calendar (1998) (edit title/settings)

The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

by David Ewing Duncan (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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From the earliest recorded date (4236 BC), people have tried to organize their lives according to the movements of the sun, moon and stars--and have, for the most part, consistently gotten it wrong. This book outlines the history of man's reckoning of time, ranging from one of the earliest... read more

From the earliest recorded date (4236 BC), people have tried to organize their lives according to the movements of the sun, moon and stars--and have, for the most part, consistently gotten it wrong. This book outlines the history of man's reckoning of time, ranging from one of the earliest calendars (a series of markings gouged into an eagle bone 13,000 years ago) to the atomic clocks of today, which measure time too well for an ever slowing Earth. The book spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen to the atomic clock in Washington, the world's officia timekeeper since the 1960s. Our present calendar system predates the invention of the telescope, the mechanical clock, and the concept of zero--and its development is one of the great untold stories of science and history.

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Seven centuries ago a sickly English friar dispatched a strident mis to Rome.

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  1. David Ewing Duncan (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bard
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0380975289
Page Count: 266

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  • Library of Congress: CE6 .D86 1998
  • Dewey: 529.309

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