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 | #1408656 in Books |  2007-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.54 x.39 x6.84l,.96 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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|| |It is a book from which there are absolute nuggets of incredible information to be mined.' (Peter A Clayton Minerva, 2008)

Steele has assembled an essential foundation for the further study of calendariography and chronography in the ancient

Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year used in early Mesop...

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