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Calendar : humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and accurate year / David Ewing Duncan.

by Duncan, David Ewing.

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New York : Bard, ©1998.

Calendar -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/98010434-b.html

xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Prelude: a net cast over time -- A long genius proclaims the truth about time -- Luna: temptress of time -- Caesar embraces the sun -- A flaming cross of gold -- Time stands still -- Monks dream while counting on their fingers -- Charlemagne's sandglass -- The strange journey of 365.242199 -- From the house of wisdom to darkest Europe -- Latinorum penuria (The poverty of the Latins) -- The battle over time -- From the black death to Copernicus -- Solving the riddle of time -- Ten days lost forever -- Living on atomic time -- Time line: the calendar.

Examines the history of man's effort organize time in civilizations around the world, from one of the earliest calendars made 13,000 years ago, to the atomic clock in Washington D.C. which has been the planet's official time keeper since the 1960s.

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