Empires of time : calendars, clocks, and cultures / Anthony F. Aveni.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [1989]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: [First edition]Description: ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465019501
  • 9780465019502
  • 046501951X
  • 9780465019519
  • 1568360738
  • 9781568360737
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I. Sensing and marking time -- The basic thythms -- Early time reckoning -- Part II. Our time: the imposition of order -- The western calendar -- The year and its accumulation in history -- Part III. Their time: following the order of the skies -- Tribal societies and lunar-social time -- The interlocking calendars of the maya -- The aztecs and the sun -- The incas and their orientation calendar -- Eastern standard: time reckoning in China -- Part IV. A world of time -- Building on the basic rhythms.
Summary: Traces the roots of our modern timekeeping system and compares it with those of tribal societies.
Holdings
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .A94 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000034559

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index.

Part I. Sensing and marking time -- The basic thythms -- Early time reckoning -- Part II. Our time: the imposition of order -- The western calendar -- The year and its accumulation in history -- Part III. Their time: following the order of the skies -- Tribal societies and lunar-social time -- The interlocking calendars of the maya -- The aztecs and the sun -- The incas and their orientation calendar -- Eastern standard: time reckoning in China -- Part IV. A world of time -- Building on the basic rhythms.

Traces the roots of our modern timekeeping system and compares it with those of tribal societies.

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Signed by the author, history of calendars and timekeping in society

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