Traces the roots of our modern timekeeping system and compares it with those of tribal societies.
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"Greek and Roman Calendars examines the ancient calendar as a time-piece, whose elements are readily described in astronomical and mathematical terms. The story of these calendars is one of a continuous struggle to maintain a correspondence with the regularity of the seasons and…
"Human history has been shaped during the time framed by the Mayan Calendar Great Cycle--3113 B.C. to A.D. 2012--by a galactic beam through which the Earth and Sun have passing ... August 16 to 17, 1987 is the shift point into the last 25 years of the galactic beam"--Back cover.
"The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalised the hours of the day and dated the year from th…
