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Book Synopsis The Great Calendar Reform by : Michael J. Walsh
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.
Book Synopsis The Reform of the Calendar by : Alexander Philip
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:
Book Synopsis Scandalous Error by : C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Download or read book Scandalous Error written by C. Philipp E. Nothaft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 378 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.
Book Synopsis The Improvement of the Gregorian Calendar by : Alexander Philip
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:
Book Synopsis Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar by : Abner Shimony
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.
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.
Book Synopsis The Christian Calendar and the Gregorian Reform by : Peter Archer
Download or read book The Christian Calendar and the Gregorian Reform written by Peter Archer and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Palaces of Time by : Elisheva Carlebach
Download or read book Palaces of Time written by Elisheva Carlebach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.
Book Synopsis Calendar Change Threatens Religion by : Carlyle B. Haynes
Download or read book Calendar Change Threatens Religion written by Carlyle B. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Calendar Reform in the 13th Century by : M. C. Welborn
Download or read book Calendar Reform in the 13th Century written by M. C. Welborn and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Calendar by : David Ewing Duncan
Download or read book The Calendar written by David Ewing Duncan and published by Brecourt Academic. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward. The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544 (Buddhist), 6236 (Ancient Egyptian), 5761 (Jewish) or simply the Year of the Dragon (Chinese). The story of the creation of the Western calendar, which is related in this book, is a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation to the point where, bizarrely, our measurement of time by atomic pulses is now more accurate than time itself: the Earth is an elderly lady and slightly eccentric - she loses half a second a century. Days have been invented (Julius Caesar needed an extra 80 days in 46BC), lost (Pope Gregory XIII ditched ten days in 1582) and moved (because Julius Caesar had 31 in his month, Augustus determined that he should have the same, so he pinched one from February).
Book Synopsis The Global Transformation of Time by : Vanessa Ogle
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.
Book Synopsis The World Calendar by : Elisabeth Achelis
Download or read book The World Calendar written by Elisabeth Achelis and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mapping Time by : Edward Graham Richards
Download or read book Mapping Time written by Edward Graham Richards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of calendars. The Millenium - do we have the correct date? Why do we celebrate Easter Sunday when we do? Find out in this book.
Download or read book Time Counts written by Harold Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time's Alteration written by Robert Poole and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time's alteration provides a succinct and accessible account of the history and problems of the Western calendar, including original studies of important but neglected works by John Dee. Isaac Newton and John Wallis. Dr. Poole's analysis of William Hogarth's famous print of the calendar rioters, An election entertainment, makes a valuable contribution to Hogarth studies while his account of the working of the 1752 calendar reform will become the standard reference point for anyone working with dates and records in the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Gregorian Reform of the Calendar by : George V. Coyne
Download or read book Gregorian Reform of the Calendar written by George V. Coyne and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
