Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford University Press)

The History of Time

A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

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Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 114mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 125g
• ISBN-13: 9780192804990
• ISBN-10: 0192804995
• Artikelnr.: 14428535

Autorenporträt

Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has a long-standing interest in calendars, chronologies, and the calculation of time.

Inhaltsangabe

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