"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…
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…
Time in print -- Time tables -- Graphic transitions -- A new chart of history -- Frontier lines -- A tinkerer's art -- Outside and inside -- Big time.