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Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
de Steel, Duncan
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Fine copy
- ISBN 10
- 0471404217
- ISBN 13
- 9780471404217
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Fine copy. 2000. 1st. softcover. 8vo, 422 pp. .
Sinopsis
"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...
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- Librería
- Abacus Bookshop
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- BOOKS102251I
- Título
- Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
- Autor
- Steel, Duncan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine copy
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0471404217
- ISBN 13
- 9780471404217
- Editorial
- John Wiley & Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science & Engineering;
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