The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars

Geoff Stray (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

57 Seiten

2007
Walker & Co (Verlag)
978-0-8027-1634-7 (ISBN)

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The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars.

The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate-far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.

Geoff Stray is a leading researcher on the Maya Calendar. He is the author of Beyond 2012, a book examining the Mayan "end of time" calendar date of December 21, 2012. He lives in England.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2008
Reihe/Serie	Wooden Books
Zusatzinfo	Frontispiece; Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 175 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8027-1634-2 / 0802716342
ISBN-13	978-0-8027-1634-7 / 9780802716347
Zustand	Neuware