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Author : William Matthew O'Neil
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Calendar
ISBN : 0719006422
Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : 140632373X
What is time? When did we first use it? Does it always work? How do animals tell time? A fun and fascinating look at time from the first calendars and clocks to the digital watches and precise time-keeping methods of today.
Author : Liz Evers
Publisher : Michael O'Mara
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781782430872
From the ice-age recordings of moon cycles and the earliest calendars, to modern wristwatches and quantum clocks, time and its effects have always enthralled mankind. We've spent centuries developing new ways of measuring time, describing it and quantifying it, and such methods have given rise to some of the most technically and aesthetically beautiful devices ever invented. This book is a tribute to timekeeping in its many forms and takes in the most significant creations as well as countless time trivia - peppered with time-related anecdotes and quotes, this really is an essential handbook for anyone fascinated by the fourth dimension.
Author : John M. Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782974932
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year used in early Mesopotamian administrative practices in order to simplify accounting procedures. Historians frequently use handbooks and tables for converting dates in ancient calendars into the familiar BC/AD calendar that we use today. But very few historians understand how these tables have come about, or what assumptions have been made in their construction. The seven papers in this volume provide an answer to the question what do we know about the operation of calendars in the ancient world, and just as importantly how do we know it? Topics covered include the ancient and modern history of the Egyptian 365-day calendar, astronomical and administrative calendars in ancient Mesopotamia, and the development of astronomical calendars in ancient Greece. This book will be of interest to ancient historians, historians of science, astronomers who use early astronomical records, and anyone with an interest in calendars and their development.
Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251199
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Author : Lance Latham
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0879304960
Does the year 2000 have you sweating late-night code? Use our complete library of C programming functions to master Y2K, time on the Net, ISO 8601, time stamp compression, or any other time/date application you encounter. Using the astronomers Julian Day'
Author : Robert Hannah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849667531
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it models the more or less regular movements of the celestial bodies - of the moon, the sun or the stars. Greek and Roman Calendars examines the ancient calendar as just such 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 the sun, despite the fact that the calendars were usually based on the irregular moon. But on another, more human level, Greek and Roman Calendars steps beyond the merely mathematical and studies the calendar as a social instrument, which people used to organise their activities. It sets the calendars of the Greeks and Romans on a stage occupied by real people, who developed and lived with these time-pieces for a variety of purposes - agricultural, religious, political and economic.This is also a story of intersecting cultures, of Greeks with Greeks, of Greeks with Persians and Egyptians, and of Greeks with Romans, in which various calendaric traditions clashed or compromised.
Author : Paul R. Wonning
Publisher : Mossy Feet Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Discover the fascinating history of time, clocks, calendars and time zones. A History of Time reveals the journal of the development of how humans keep track of time, including daylight saving time. Clock history, calendar history, history of time zones, sundial, hourglass history, daylight saving time
Author : Betsy Maestro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780060589455
Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping! Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented? Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.
Author : James C. VanderKam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709632
Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts.
Author : Janet Hoskins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520919130
Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. Hoskins explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces. Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, Hoskins highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time.
Author : Alan Rosen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253038289
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars according to the wartime settings in which they were produced—from Jewish communities to ghettos and concentration camps. The calendars he considers reorient views of Jewish circumstances during the war and show how Jews were committed to fashioning traditional guides to daily life, even in the most extreme conditions. In a separate chapter, moreover, he elucidates how Holocaust-era diaries sometimes served as surrogate Jewish calendars. All in all, Rosen presents a revised idea of time, continuity, the sacred and the mundane, the ordinary and the extraordinary even when death and destruction were the order of the day. Rosen’s focus on the Jewish calendar—the ultimate symbol of continuity, as weekday follows weekday and Sabbath follows Sabbath—sheds new light on how Jews maintained connections to their way of conceiving time even within the cauldron of the Holocaust.
Author : Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252363
Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
Author : Geoff Stray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802716347
The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate-far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568360738
Compares contemporary time keeping methods and related cultural perspectives to those of seminomadic tribes and classical civilizations, tracing the influence of calendars, datebooks, clocks, and other means of measuring humankind's most valuable commodit