| Description | | - An absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives which we all take for granted
- An accessible look at an immensely complicated subject, using original research and a range of tables and diagrams to fully explain the concepts involved
- There is no comparable introduction to this subject available
- Covers a wide range of cultures
| Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French
calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five and then six-day weeks. Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores these questions using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter. |
Readership: Students and general readers interested in time, time measurement, and the history of the development of the calendar.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
Principles of time measurement
2.
Prehistory and history of the modern calendar
3.
Weeks and seasons
4.
Easter
5.
Other calendars
6.
Marking the year
7.
Dividing the day
Further Reading
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford University Press
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