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Description for Mapping Time
Paperback. 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 book serves as an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world. Num Pages: 460 pages, black and white plates and tables. BIC Classification: PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
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. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and other civilizations, of the short-lived French Republican calendar, which introduced a ten-day week, and of our present-day Gregorian calendar. This fascinating and highly entertaining book is the perfect guide to understanding the background of time in the run up to the millennium. 'an easily accessible mine of material' TLS ... Read more
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. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and other civilizations, of the short-lived French Republican calendar, which introduced a ten-day week, and of our present-day Gregorian calendar. This fascinating and highly entertaining book is the perfect guide to understanding the background of time in the run up to the millennium. 'an easily accessible mine of material' TLS ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Number of Pages
460
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192862051
SKU
V9780192862051
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About E. G. Richards
E. G. (Edward Graham) Richards was formerly a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics at King's College, University of London. His interest in the calendar was sparked when he wrote and published computer programmes for converting dates from one calendar to another. An historical note on the various calendars included in the exercise was intended to accompany the programmes ... Read more
Reviews for Mapping Time
This is a work of enthusiastic research. Richards makes even the most arcane complications arising from the accident of Earth's spin and orbit seem facinating.
New Scientist Sat 28th November 1998.
..a substantial work, perhaps more useful as a reference tool than David Ewing Duncan's more story-oriented Calender
Library Journal
This is a book full of ... Read more
New Scientist Sat 28th November 1998.
..a substantial work, perhaps more useful as a reference tool than David Ewing Duncan's more story-oriented Calender
Library Journal
This is a book full of ... Read more