The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan

The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

David Ewing Duncan

360 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The first complete history of the calendar, including tales of science, religion, superstition and politics from many eras; from Ancient Egypt to the flowering of Islamic and Indian civilizations.

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