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David Ewing Duncan.
The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens — and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days.
Published London: Fourth Estate, 2nd impression (previously issued 1998).
ISBN 1857027213;
ISBN-13: 9781857027211.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 131×184×34mm.
Page count: xx,360pp, inc. some monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed, some wear at its edges and corners; printed on low-grade paper so pages somewhat yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £6.99]
Weight without packaging: 454g.

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Chronologically wide-ranging, but incorporates some medieval material.

Contents: A lone genius proclaims the truth about time; Luna — temptress of time; Caesar embraces the sun; Flaming cross of gold; Time stands still; Monks dream while counting on their fingers; Charlemagne’s sandglass; Strange journey of 365.242199; From the house of wisdom to darkest Europe; Latinorium penuria (poverty of the Latins); Battle over time; From the Black Death to Copernicus; Solving the riddle of time; 10 days lost for ever; Living on atomic time.

Illustrations: 14, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: 9
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 6pp
Index: yes

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