Calendars and years II : astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world /
Calendars and years II : astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world /
edited by John Steele.
- Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2011.
- 179 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
The Chinese sexagenary cycle and the ritual foundations of the calendar / Adam Smith -- Mathematical astronomy and the Chinese calendar / N. Sivin -- Calendars in India / Kim Plofker and Toke L. Knudsen -- The 364-day year in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish pseudepigrapha / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- The "well-known calendars": al-Kh®zin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle -- The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.
9781842179871 (pbk.)
Calendars--History--To 1500.
Chronology, Historical.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Time measurements--History--To 1500.
903
The Chinese sexagenary cycle and the ritual foundations of the calendar / Adam Smith -- Mathematical astronomy and the Chinese calendar / N. Sivin -- Calendars in India / Kim Plofker and Toke L. Knudsen -- The 364-day year in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish pseudepigrapha / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- The "well-known calendars": al-Kh®zin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle -- The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.
9781842179871 (pbk.)
Calendars--History--To 1500.
Chronology, Historical.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Time measurements--History--To 1500.
903