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By David Ewing Duncan
This is a lively and informative account
of the development of the calendar, from
various ancient civilizations to the present
day. Part of the story concerns the mechanics
of measuring a "year" and this
concept varied in different eras and among
different peoples of the earth. The other
half of the tale concerns how theories about
time influenced these efforts at measurement
and how the resulting calendars then dictated
how people ordered their lives. This book
allows you to step back and understand the
evolution of our thinking about a fundamental
concept (time) that today we tend to take
for granted. |
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