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.

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