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100	1		_aSteel, Duncan, _d1955- _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94078778 _94822
245	1	0	_aMarking time : _bthe epic quest to invent the perfect calendar / _cDuncan Steel.
250			_a[First edition].
264		1	_aNew York : _bWiley, _c[2000]
264		4	_c©2000
300			_aix, 422 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-400) and index.
505	0		_aGeorge 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? -- Appendix A: How long is a day? -- Appendix B: How long is a year? -- Appendix C: How long is a second? -- Appendix D: How long is a month?
520			_aThis book takes you across the full span of recorded history to examine the ways in which people and events forged the calendar that we have today. Starting with Stonehenge and the first written records of the year and the day by the Sumerians around 3500 B.C., astronomer Steel charts the calendar's ever-changing, erratic trajectory--from the Egyptians' reliance on the star Sirius to the numbering of the years linked to the celebration of Easter in Christian churches. A provocative history lesson and a unique, entertaining read rolled into one, Marking Time will leave you with a sense of awe at the random, hit-or-miss nature of our calendar's development--a quality that parallels the growth of civilization itself. What results is a truthful, and, above all, very human view of the calendar as we know it. You will never look at the calendar the same way again.--From publisher description.
530			_aAlso issued online.
562			_331560000043576 _b5558
590			_aScolarly text on the history of the calendar, bibliography, index
650		0	_aCalendar _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018824 _93591
650		7	_aCalendar. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00844160 _94850
653		5	_aGlobal
653		2	_aHistory
653		0	_aTimekeeper (general)
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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