Calendars and years II : astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Steele, John M.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; : Oakville, CT :.
Oxbow Books,
2011.
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| Umfang/Format: |
179 p. : ill.; tab. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781842179871 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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-Khzin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle
- The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.
