The calendar : the 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing ten days
Duncan, David Ewing1999
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This is the story of the creation of the Western calendar - a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation.
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Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 1999.
Collation:
xviii, 360 p. : ill., facsims. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1998.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781857029796 (pbk)
Dewey class:
529.3529523.1
Local class:
523.1
Language:
English
BRN:
2073