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The Calendar : the 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward. The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544 (Buddhist), 6236 (Ancient Egyptian), 5761 (Jewish) or simply the Year of the Dragon (Chinese). The story of the creation of the Western calendar, which is related in this book, is a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation to the point where, bizarrely, our measurement of time by atomic pulses is now more a
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- Author
- David Ewing Duncan
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781857029796
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Astronomy, Science
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (589 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (1999)
- The Calendar : the 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened During the Missing Ten Days (1998)
- The Calendar : the 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days (2014)
- The Calendar : the 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days (1998)
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