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000231950 1001_ $$aSteel, Duncan,$$d1955-
000231950 24510 $$aMarking time :$$bthe epic quest to invent the perfect calendar /$$cDuncan Steel.
000231950 260__ $$aNew York :$$bJ. Wiley,$$cc2000.
000231950 300__ $$aix, 422 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000231950 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 399-400) and index.
000231950 5050_ $$aGeorge Washington's birthday -- The Country Parson's Formula -- The cycles of the sky -- Stonehenge and Sothis (third millennium B.C.) -- Meton (432 B.C.), Callippus (330 B.C.), and Hipparchus (130 B.C.) -- Julius Caesar (46 B.C.) -- Constantine the Great (A.D. 321) -- Dionysius Exiguus (A.D. 525) -- The Synod of Whitby (A.D. 664) -- The Venerable Bede (A.D. 725) -- Lady Day -- Retrospective dating -- Pope Gregory XIII (A.D. 1582) -- The perfect Christian calendar and God's longitude -- Archbishop Ussher and the age of the earth (A.D. 1650) -- Lord Chesterfield's Act (A.D. 1751) -- Poor Richard's Almanack -- President Arthur requests (A.D. 1884) -- Marching to the same drummer? -- Calendar reform -- The Comet of Bethlehem -- How many days in a dinosaur year? -- Should 2100 be a double leap year? -- Appendix A: How long is a day? -- Appendix B: How long is a year? -- Appendix C: How long is a second? -- Appendix D: How long is a month?
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