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Calendar -- History.
Time.
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Holford-Strevens, Leofranc.
Calendar -- History.
Time.
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The history of time : a very short introduction / Leofranc Holford-Strevens.
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Holford-Strevens, Leofranc.
Oxford University Press, 2005.
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529
.3
H729h
Subjects
Calendar -- History.
Time.
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Very short introductions, no. 133
ISBN:
9780192804990 (pbk.)
0192804995 (pbk.)
Description:
144 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index.
Contents:
1. The day -- 2. Months and years --
3
. Prehistory and history of the modern calendar -- 4. Easter -- 5. Weeks and seasons -- 6. Other calendars -- 7. Marking the year -- Appendices --Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.
Summary:
"The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores the history of the measurement of time using a range of fascinating examples, from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year to the 1920's project for a fixed Easter."--Book Jacket.
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