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Title Calendars and years. II, Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world / edited by John Steele
Published Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro; Preface; The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Ritual Foundations; Mathematical Astronomy and the Chinese Calendar; Calendars in India; The 364-Day Year in the Dead Sea Scrolls; The 'Well-Known Calendars': al-Khazini's Description of Significant Chronological Systems; The Maya Calendar Correlation Problem
Subject Calendars -- History -- To 1500
Chronology, Historical.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Time measurements -- History -- To 1500
chronicles.
annals (histories, without comment)
Astronomy, Ancient
Astronomy, Medieval
Calendars
Chronology, Historical
Time measurements
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Steele, John M., editor.
ISBN 9781842178249
1842178245
9781842178225
1842178229
Other Titles Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world