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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

Door David Ewing Duncan

Categorie	Algemeen Astrologie & Spiritualiteit
Boeknummer	#213454
Titel	The Calendar. The 5000-year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
Auteur	Duncan, David Ewing
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Fourth Estate, London
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	1857027213
ISBN13	9781857027211
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	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 accurate than time itself: the Earth is an elderly lady and slightly eccentric - she loses half a second a century. Days have been invented (Julius Caesar needed an extra 80 days in 46BC), lost (Pope Gregory XIII ditched ten days in 1582) and moved (because Julius Caesar had 31 in his month, August... (Lees verder)us determined that he should have the same, so he pinched one from February). Published with the world under threat from chaos arising from the expiry of computer dates after 31st December 1999, this study links politics and religion, astronomy and mathematics, and Cleopatra and Stephen Hawking.
Pagina's	360
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 7,50

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