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Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar Tapa dura - 1999 - 1st Edición
de Duncan Steel
Resumen
"If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 b.c., to January 1, a.d. 1 (there is no year zero), then you will enjoy Duncan Steel's Marking Time."--American Scientist "No book could serve as a better guide to the cumulative invention that defines the imaginary threshold to the new millennium."--Booklist A Fascinating March through History and the Evolution of the Modern-Day Calendar . . . In this vivid, fast-moving narrative, you'll discover the surprising story of how our modern calendar came about and how it has changed dramatically through the years. Acclaimed author Duncan Steel explores each major step in creating the current calendar along with the many different systems for defining the number of days in a week, the length of a month, and the number of days in a year. From the definition of the lunar month by Meton of Athens in 432 b.c. to the roles played by Julius Caesar...
Primera línea
Fifteen miles south of Washington, D.C., abreast the Potomac River where it flows through the verdant countryside of Virginia, stands Mount Vernon, the home and tomb of George Washington, first president of the United States.
Descripción de contraportada
"Our various calendars are part of the music and art of life, not stark science." --Duncan Steel Did you know?...
- Russia's October Revolution in 1917 actually occurred on November 7th For centuries, Britain and the colonies rang in the New Year on March 25th
- The Roman Empire originally observed an eight-day week The anno Domini (A.D.) year-counting system is wrong, and Jesus' birth actually occurred some years before December 25, I B.C.
- The mystery of the missing ten days The Venerable Bede and the origins of the anno Domini dating system
- How and why comets have been used as clocks Julius Caesar's 445-day-long Year of Confusion
- Why there is no year zero between I B.C. and I A.D. Whether the year 2100 should be a double-leap year
Descripción de la solapa
"Our various calendars are part of the music and art of life, not stark science." --Duncan Steel Did you know?...
- Russia's October Revolution in 1917 actually occurred on November 7th For centuries, Britain and the colonies rang in the New Year on March 25th
- The Roman Empire originally observed an eight-day week The anno Domini (A.D.) year-counting system is wrong, and Jesus' birth actually occurred some years before December 25, I B.C.
- The mystery of the missing ten days The Venerable Bede and the origins of the anno Domini dating system
- How and why comets have been used as clocks Julius Caesar's 445-day-long Year of Confusion
- Why there is no year zero between I B.C. and I A.D. Whether the year 2100 should be a double-leap year
Detalles
- Título Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
- Autor Duncan Steel
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 432
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Wiley, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1999-10-01
- ISBN 9780471298274 / 0471298271
- Peso 1.83 libras (0.83 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.38 x 6.02 x 1.3 pulgadas (23.83 x 15.29 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Calendar - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99051369
- Dewey Decimal Code 529.3
Reseñas en medios
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- Booklist, 10/15/1999, Page 402
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1999, Page 1564
- Publishers Weekly, 10/25/1999, Page 62
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