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  The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars (Wooden Books) (Hardback) By (author) Geoff Stray

  

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  Short Description for The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars 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. ...
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  • Publisher: Walker & Company
  • Published: 13 November 2007
  • Format: Hardback 57 pages
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  • Categories: Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | Indigenous Peoples | History Of Science | Astronomy, Space & Time | Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards | History Of The Americas | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780802716347 ISBN 10: 0802716342
  • Sales rank: 705,767

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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.