"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…
'Before the invention of clocks, what did time mean to people? This book looks at how ancient Greeks and Romans marked the seasons and told the time - from checking the length of their shadows to tracking the rising and setting of the stars. Includes cosmic time, marking time, t…
De geschiedenis van de kalender vanaf de prehistorie met nadruk op de invoering van de Gregoriaanse kalender.
"This book takes as its theme the related issues of calendar, chronology and workship, as they were conceived and practiced in ancient Jewish and early Christian times." "After a general discussion of the way the three issues are related, there follow six chapters on the calenda…
