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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Journal of Calendar Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Walsh
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ISBN 13 : 9780244104061
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Great Calendar Reform written by Michael J. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII is now the most widely used civil calendar in the world. The older calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. underestimated the length of the year by about 11 minutes. As centuries passed, the accumulated error grew. By the late 1500s the Julian calendar was behind by twelve days. Set amid the backdrop of the Reformation and the Renaissance, a time of great schism in the Christian world, the story of the calendar reform is an intriguing one. A central part concerns the antagonistic relationship between two of the great intellectual figures of the 16th century: the pro-reform mathematician Christopher Clavius and the anti-reform literary scholar Joseph Scaliger. In this book, the author provides an accessible mathematical description of the old and new calendars as well as a detailed discussion of the historical context for, and the main players involved in the calendar reform.
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of Calendar Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520180
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Scandalous Error written by C. Philipp E. Nothaft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a triumph of early modern scientific culture or an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Much less attention has been paid to reform's intellectual roots in the European Middle Ages, when the reckoning of time by means of calendrical cycles was a topic of central importance to learned culture, as impressively documented by the survival of relevant texts and tables in thousands of manuscripts copied before 1500. For centuries prior to the Gregorian reform, astronomers, mathematicians, theologians, and even Church councils had been debating the necessity of improving or emending the existing ecclesiastical calendar, which throughout the Middle Ages kept losing touch with the astronomical phenomena at an alarming pace. Scandalous Error is the first comprehensive study of the medieval literature devoted to the calendar problem and its cultural and scientific contexts. It examines how the importance of ordering liturgical time by means of a calendar that comprised both solar and lunar components posed a technical-astronomical problem to medieval society and details the often sophisticated ways in which computists and churchmen reacted to this challenge. By drawing attention to the numerous connecting paths that existed between calendars and mathematical astronomy between the Fall of Rome and the end of the fifteenth century, the volume offers substantial new insights on the place of exact science in medieval culture.
Author : Alexander Philip
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Reform of the Calendar written by Alexander Philip and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Philip
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Improvement of the Gregorian Calendar written by Alexander Philip and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Henkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300257325
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Week written by David M. Henkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources--including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries--David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work, but a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.
Author : Roman Krakovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609105
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia written by Roman Krakovsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes even sought to transform the ways in which their citizens interacted with each other and the world around them. Using a unique analytical model based on an amalgam of anthropology, sociology, history and extensive archival research, award-winning scholar Roman Krakovsky here considers the Czechoslovakian attempt to 'reinvent the world' - 'time' and 'space' included - in this all-encompassing way. Ranging from WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall, his innovative analysis variously considers the impact of Stakhanovism, the impossible-to-achieve production targets intended to assert socialism's future potential; the attempt to replace Sunday's Christian attributes with socialist ones; and the profound changes brought about to the public and private spheres, including the culture of informing and the ways this was circumvented. Across a wide range of case studies Krakovsky demonstrates both the far-reaching extent of the communist vision and the inherent flaws and contradictions that gradually destabilised it. This in-depth perspective is vital reading for all scholars of twentieth century history and politics.
Author : J.Gabriel Koestel
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105893227
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Calendar Question written by J.Gabriel Koestel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737024
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Global Transformation of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
Author : World Calendar Association
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Why Reform the Calendar? written by World Calendar Association and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman Joseph Heuser
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Ecclesiastical Review written by Herman Joseph Heuser and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Pasco-Pranger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409590
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar written by Molly Pasco-Pranger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives serious consideration to the relationship between Ovid’s Fasti and the Roman calendar. The poem treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext.'
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Calendar Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226981657
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Seven Day Circle written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published in 1985 by the Free Press and Collier Macmillan. Zerubavel (sociology, Rutgers U.) discusses the rhythm that the week--an arbitrary invention--imposes on our activities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Duncan Steel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470245085
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Marking Time written by Duncan Steel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 b.c., to January 1, a.d. 1 (there is no year zero), then you will enjoy Duncan Steel's Marking Time."--American Scientist "No book could serve as a better guide to the cumulative invention that defines the imaginary threshold to the new millennium."--Booklist A Fascinating March through History and the Evolution of the Modern-Day Calendar . . . In this vivid, fast-moving narrative, you'll discover the surprising story of how our modern calendar came about and how it has changed dramatically through the years. Acclaimed author Duncan Steel explores each major step in creating the current calendar along with the many different systems for defining the number of days in a week, the length of a month, and the number of days in a year. From the definition of the lunar month by Meton of Athens in 432 b.c. to the roles played by Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, and Isaac Newton to present-day proposals to reform our calendar, this entertaining read also presents "timely" tidbits that will take you across the full span of recorded history. Find out how and why comets have been used as clocks, why there is no year zero between 1 b.c. and a.d. 1, and why for centuries Britain and its colonies rang in the New Year on March 25th. Marking Time will leave you with a sense of awe at the haphazard nature of our calendar's development. Once you've read this eye-opening book, you'll never look at the calendar the same way again.
Author : Abner Shimony
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387949356
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar written by Abner Shimony and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how an eleven-year old boy growing up in 16th century Italy loses his birthday when the Gregorian calendar replaces the Julian calendar in 1582, and how he fights to prevent this loss. The author cleverly weaves elements of the cultural and scientific milieu of the time into an engaging and intelligent tale. Tibaldos father is a medical assistant, and his sister is a midwife. Thus, the boy grows up learning about current medical practices and his fascination for medicine makes him a fast learner. Then, when Tibaldo learns that he is about to lose his 13th birthday, he determines to do something about it. The result is both amusing and informative.
