Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
Publisher: Wiley
Publication year: 2000
ISBN: 0471404217
Description:
For the new millennium, a timely history of time. For all the talk of the millennium, one would think the calendar was an established fact of science, as irrefutable as the atomic weight of hydrogen. But as this book points out, the calendar is an evolving invention of our struggle to measure time.
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