Calendars and years
Subtitle: Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world
By: edited by John Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781842179871
Subjects: History; Historical Chronology; Medieval Astronomy; Time measurements; Calendars; Ancient Astronomy
Other titles: Astronomy and time in the ancient and medieval world
Notes: v. 1: Calendars and years: astronomy and time in the ancient near East. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Chinese sexagenary cycle and the ritual foundations of the calendar / Adam Smith; title: Mathematical astronomy and the Chinese calendar / N. Sivin; title: Calendars in India / Kim Plofker and Toke L. Knudsen; title: The 364-day year in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish pseudepigrapha / Jonathan Ben-Dov; title: The "well-known calendars": al-Khāzin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle; title: The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.