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Calendars and years II : astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world / edited by John Steele.
Contributor(s): Steele, John M
Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2011.Description: 179 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781842179871 (pbk.)Subject(s): Calendars -- History -- To 1500 | Chronology, Historical | Astronomy, Ancient | Astronomy, Medieval | Time measurements -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 903
Contents:
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.
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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.