ISBN:
9781842179871 (pbk.)
Language:
English
Pages:
179 p. :
,
ill.; tab. ;
,
24 cm.
Year of publication:
2011
DDC:
903
Keywords:
Calendars History To 1500.
;
Chronology, Historical.
;
Astronomy, Ancient.
;
Astronomy, Medieval.
;
Time measurements History To 1500.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
