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Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars
Ever since humans first began to count, people have clocked days, moons and years, tried to make sense of them in terms of each other, and formed calendars to order their lives. In an amazing leap, the ancient Maya managed to synchronize all the visible planets too. In this tiny guide to ancient calendars, Geoff Stray explains the difference between lunar and solar calendars, the importance of precession, and reveals for the very first time the secret of the Long Count.WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.
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The Liturgy of Creation – Understanding Calendars in Old Testament Context
Biblical Foundations Award Finalist Holidays today are often established by legislation, and calendars are published on paper and smart phones.But how were holidays chosen and taught in biblical Israel? And what might these holidays have to do with the creation narrative?In this book, Michael LeFebvre considers the calendars of the Pentateuch with their basis in the heavenly lights and the land's agricultural cadences.He argues that dates were added to Old Testament narratives not as journalistic details but to teach sacred rhythms of labor and worship.LeFebvre then applies this insight to the creation week, finding that the days of creation also serve a liturgical purpose and not a scientific one. The Liturgy of Creation restores emphasis on the religious function of the creation week as a guide for Sabbath worship.Scholars, students, and church members alike will appreciate LeFebvre's careful scholarship and pastoral sensibilities.
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Time and Place : Notes on the art of calendars
Dates are invented things. Nothing in nature decrees that today is today. But for millennia humans have divided time into portions, and given those portions names which are shared widely across cultures, creating a common agreement on the date.This convention is useful in practical ways: we can make arrangements and can communicate time elapsed or time ahead.But the calendar also makes a certain kind of truth and establishes that today is today.As calendars and almanacs developed, art from their specific time and place was naturally incorporated. In this small book showcasing the finest and most interesting art that has gone into almanacs, from the eight century onwards, Alexandra Harris brings in everything from Benedictine calendars to Old Moore's Almanack.
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Lily's Kitchen Advent Calendar for Cats - 2 Advent Calendars
Our delightful Lily’s Kitchen Cat Advent Calendar is a great way to include your cat in the countdown to the festive season! Every day you can treat your cat to an irresistible treat with a seasonal twist, ensuring that every family member can get into the festive spirit. The Lily’s Kitchen Cat Advent Calendar includes a range of stars, including: Festive Salmon Nibbles: With a soft centre and crunchy shell, these treats are naturally delicious and made with freshly prepared salmon and chicken liver. Cracking Chicken Nibbles: Delectable treats made with fresh chicken. These are delicious delights for twinkly-eyed Christmas cats. Lily's Kitchen Advent Calendar for Cats at a glance: Advent calendar for cats Filled with tasty treats to bring a festive feel to every day Naturally delicious countdown to Christmas! Delicious Lily’s Kitchen favourites: includes Festive Salmon Nibbles and Cracking Chicken Nibbles Made with natural ingredients Grain-free: even sensitive cats can get in the festive spirit!
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Star Gods of the Maya : Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways.This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation.She devotes subsequent chapters to Precolumbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras.She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices [painted books], and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time.This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture.Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture.
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Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems : Proceedings of the Copenhagen Roundtable
Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems draws together studies by some of the world’s leading experts presented at a conference held in December 2020, ‘The Origins and Developments of Central Mexican Calendars and Writing Systems’.Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing.From the earliest attestations of this intellectual feat in the Late Preclassic period (c. 900 bc-ad 150), writing spread throughout Mesoamerica, developing and diversifying into a series of distinct and independent scripts.With the exception of the celebrated phonetic decipherments of Maya and Aztec writing, which are now well-documented and can be fully read, most Mesoamerican writing systems remain little studied and undeciphered.This is particularly true of the writing systems of Western Mesoamerica, the topic of this volume. Bringing together new research on Western Mesoamerican writing systems, some contributions focus on specific features of a given writing system, whereas others offer state-of-the-art syntheses of whole writing systems.Two contributions focus on the calendar in particular, and associated notations, as integral parts of writing systems.Chapters are included on the writing system of Teotihuacan, the Ñuiñe writing of the Mixteca Baja and adjoining areas, the writing system of the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic.These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica, spanning from the Early Classic to the Late Postclassic (from the 2nd to the sixteenth centuries ad).Aztec writing even continued in use for several decades after the Spanish invasion of Mexico (ad 1519-1521), which saw the introduction of the Latin alphabet and the gradual obsolescence of Mesoamerican logophonetic writing systems.
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Astronomy and Calendars – The Other Chinese Mathematics : 104 BC - AD 1644
Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations.The following issues are addressed: (1) connections with non-Chinese cultural areas; (2) the possibility or impossibility of using mathematics to predict astronomical phenomena, a question that was constantly raised by the Chinese from antiquity through medieval times; (3) the modes of representation of numbers, and in particular the zero, found in the context of Chinese calendrical calculations; and (4) a detailed analysis of lunisolar calendrical calculations.Fully worked-out examples and comparisons between the results of calculations and the content of Chinese historical calendars from various periods are provided. Traditional Chinese calendrical and mathematical astronomy consists of permanently reformed mathematical procedures designed to predict, but not explain, phenomena pertaining to astronomy and related areas.Yet, despite appearances, models of the mathematical techniques hidden behind this voluminous corpus reveal that they depend on a limited number of clear-cut mathematical structures.Although only a small fraction of these techniques have been fully studied, what is known surprisingly broadens our knowledge of the history of Chinese mathematics. Sinologists interested in the history of Chinese science, and anyone interested in the history of Chinese mathematics, the Chinese calendar, and the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy from its origin (104 BC) to its European reform (AD 1644) will find this book very useful.The present English language edition is a fully revised and updated version of the French original.Even though this is a research monograph in sinology, no particular sinological background is required, although a basic understanding of ‘concrete mathematics’ is needed. From the reviews of the French edition: This is a demanding, rigorous book to read … worth the concentrated study it requires.The rewards are not only in the details but in the general overview that …[it] provides. Joseph Dauben, EASTM, 2011...first Work in a Western language to turn to for anyone interested in the details of Chinese calendrical computations. Benno Van Dalen, ISIS, 2011 Martzloff’s careful scholarship and his overall look at the calendar beyond astronomical calculations, …, make this book a most valuable contributions to a field of increasing interest.U. D’Ambrosio, Mathematical Reviews, 2013
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