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
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Fourth Estate. Good. 4.96 x 0.96 x 7.01 inches. Paperback. 1999. 384 pages. Text edge foxed<br>The 5,000-year struggle to align th e heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten day s. Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never b een entirely straightforward.The year 2000 is alternatively the y ear 2544 (Buddhist), 6236 (Ancient Egyptian), 5761 (Jewish) or si mply ... .
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- Title
- The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
- Author
- David Ewing Duncan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1857029798
- ISBN 13
- 9781857029796
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- calendar,cosmology,space, and, time
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