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The calendar : history, lore, and legend / Jacqueline de Bourgoing.
LIBRA CE6 .B6813 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourgoing, Jacqueline.
- Series:
- Discoveries (New York, N.Y.)
- Discoveries
- Standardized Title:
- Calendrier. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Calendar--History.
- Calendar.
- History.
- Calendar--Folklore.
- Calendar--History--Pictorial works.
- Time--Social aspects--History.
- Time.
- Time--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Folklore.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 143 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way.
- Contents:
- 1 An Ancient Challenge 13
- 2 The Julian Calendar, from Caesar to Christianity 41
- 3 An Instrument of Measurement 67
- 4 Toward a Universal Calendar 93
- Documents 113.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 137) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810929813
- OCLC:
- 46449220
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