Marking Time The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar

Name: Marking Time The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
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ISBN: 9780471298274

ISBN-10: 0471298271

ISBN-13: 9780471298274

Edition: 1999

Authors: Duncan Steel

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.38" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Preface


George Washington's Birthday


The Country Parson's Formula


The Cycles of the Sky


Stonehenge and Sothis (Third Millennium B.C.)


Meton (432 B.C.), Callippus (330 B.C.), and Hipparchus (130 B.C.)


Julius Caesar (46 B.C.)


Constantine the Great (A.D. 321)


Dionysius Exiguus (A.D. 525)


The Synod of Whitby (A.D. 664)


The Venerable Bede (A.D. 725)


Lady Day


Retrospective Dating


Pope Gregory XIII (A.D. 1582)


The Perfect Christian Calendar and God's Longitude


Archbishop Ussher and the Age of the Earth (A.D. 1650)


Lord Chesterfield's Act (A.D. 1751)


Poor Richard's Almanack


President Arthur Requests (A.D. 1884)


Marching to the Same Drummer?


Calendar Reform


The Comet of Bethlehem


How Many Days in a Dinosaur Year?


Should 2100 Be a Double Leap Year?


Epilogue



How Long Is a Day?



How Long Is a Year?



How Long Is a Second?



How Long Is a Month?


Selected Bibliography


Index