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Calendars and years.
- Title
- Calendars and years. II, Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world / edited by John Steele.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-2010 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Steele, John M.
- Description
- iv, 179 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The Chinese sexagenary cycle and the ritual foundations of the calendar / Adam Smith -- Mathematical astronomy and the Chinese calendar / N. Sivin -- Calendars in India / Kim Plofker and Toke L. Knudsen -- The 364-day year in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish pseudepigrapha / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- The "well-known calendars": al-Khāzin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle -- The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2010
- ISBN
- 9781842179871 (pbk.)
- 184217987X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010050030
- OCLC
- 688559508
- Title
- Calendars and years. II, Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world / edited by John Steele.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Steele, John M.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2010