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Recommended books (see also Museum shop, and credits)
We are often asked about books we might recommend. The following is a range of books relating to the development of calendars and the measurement of time. See also calendars for sale at Amazon, and the exhibit credits for bibliographic sources.
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Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year
by David E. Duncan
Engaging narrative traces the development of our modern-day (Gregorian) calendar, and describes how people's experiences are shaped by their conception of time. Also describes ancient calendars of many cultures all over the globe, from India to Egypt to the Mayan empire.
ISBN: 0380793245
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Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
by Duncan Steel
This Australian astronomer (Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets) provides a general history of the development of the calendar system, a reassessment of why England settled the mid-Atlantic coast of North America, and advanced astronomical information for the science buff or professional.
ISBN: 0471404217
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Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
by Jo Ellen Barnett
A lively history of 4,000 years of timekeeping, with a balance of science, history, and sociology, it traces the important developments in humankind's epic quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy, and how our concept of time has changed with each breakthrough.
ISBN: 0156006499
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Story of Time
by Kristen Lippincott
Academic tone. Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural in its subject-matter and approach, and all-encompassing in its scope, the book is written by an outstanding international cast of authors, including Umberto Eco and Sir Ernst Gombrich, each one a renowned expert from the fields of science, art, history, philosophy, or culture.
ISBN: 1858940729
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Eyewitness: Time & Space
by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
Organized like an illustrated travel guide. This is an interesting and quick guide to the mysteries of the Universe. Superb full-color photography and innovative 3-D models. See how time and space are measured, the world's largest telescope, in Hawaii, a sonic tape measure, inside an atom, and how pulsars flicker on and off with amazing precision.
ISBN: 0789455781
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Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition
by Edward M. Reingold & Nachum Dershowitz
A reference making accurate calendrical algorithms available for computer use with LISP, Mathematica, and Java code. All of the code necessary for these algorithms is presented on the CD-ROM.
ISBN: 0521777526
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The Book of Calendars
by Frank Parise
Provides tables that convert dates from sixty calendars, ancient and modern, to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars.
ISBN: 1931956766
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Standard C Date/Time Library: Programming the World's Calendars and Clocks
by Lance Latham
The author wrote the C programming functions that constitute a complete date and time toolkit. He details the Julian calendar and the calendars of most major cultures of the world, and he supplies the historical knowledge necessary to determine the rules of use and the range of problems that programming a solution must address.
ISBN: 0879304960
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