Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by Duncan, David Ewing
Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by Duncan, David Ewing

Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at...
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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by Duncan, David Ewing

Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year

$43.45
Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by Duncan, David Ewing

Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year

$43.45
Author: David Ewing Duncan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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

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?

Author: David Ewing Duncan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.29w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780380793242


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 94

About the Author
Duncan, David Ewing: -

David Ewing Duncan is the author of five books, including the international bestseller Calendar, and writes for Wired, Discover, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is a freelance producer and correspondent for ABC's Nightline, and a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. He also writes the popular Biotech and Creativity column for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2003, he won the Magazine Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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