The calendar : the 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing ten days / David Ewing Duncan
1998, First Edition. London : Fourth Estate. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #450072
ISBN: 1857027213
Physical description: xviii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes: With a calendar index & a chronology of events. Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-342) and index. Contents: Which Year? -- Prelude: A Net Cast Over Time -- Time Line: A Chronology of Events -- 1. Lone Genius Proclaims the Truth About Time -- 2. Luna: Temptress of Time -- 3. Caesar Embraces the Sun -- 4. Flaming Cross of Gold -- 5. Time Stands Still -- 6. Monks Dream While Counting on Their Fingers -- 7. Charlemagne's Sandglass -- 8. Strange Journey of 365.242199 -- 9. From the House of Wisdom to Darkest Europe -- 10. Latinorum Penuria (The Poverty of the Latins) -- 11. Battle Over Time -- 12. From the Black Death to Copernicus -- 13. Solving the Riddle of Time -- 14. Ten Days Lost For Ever -- 15. Living on Atomic Time. Subjects: Calendar History.
Calendar, Gregorian History. Calendar History.
Price: €12.95