: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World
First Statement of Responsibility
\ edited by John Steele.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oakville, CT
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Oxbow Books
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
iv, 179 p.
Other Physical Details
:ill.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Bibliography
CONTENTS NOTE
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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-Khzin's description of significant chronological systems for medieval mathematical astronomy in Arabic / Clemency Montelle -- The Maya calendar correlation problem / Gerardo Aldana.