Calendars and years.
Steele, John M.
Oxford : Oxbow Books,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Calendars
Chronology, Historical.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Time measurements