Calendars and years II : astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world

Weitere Verfasser: Steele, John M.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; : Oakville, CT :. Oxbow Books, 2011.
Umfang/Format: 179 p. : ill.; tab. ; 24 cm.
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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.