Author: Frank Parise
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: calendars, julian, gregorian, modern, tables, conversion, book, ancient
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-11-02
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 1931956766
ISBN-13: 9781931956765
It is not easy to discover how ancient peoples told time, and it is extremely difficult to translate one calendar date to another. Parise provides tables that convert dates from sixty calendars, ancient and modern, to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars.
Author: Paul Jacquelin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co
Keywords: calendars, bestow
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2009-01-23
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1434991067
ISBN-13: 9781434991065
Author: Betsy Maestro
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: calendars, clocks, story
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0060589450
ISBN-13: 9780060589455
Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping! Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented? Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.
Author: Harold Davi
Publisher: Consultant Press,
Keywords: calendars, posters, cards, art, publishing
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0913069426
ISBN-13: 9780913069424
Publishing Your Art as Cards, Posters & Calendars (Revised & Expanded) is a complete guide to creating, designing and marketing. Davis, who has successfully created and marketed his own cards and posters, has written a practical, definitive manual for artists working with oils, water colors, pastels, graphics, collage, computer art and photography. Cards, posters and calendars are not only an additional source of income but enhance the reputation of the artist. Davis discusses creating, designing and marketing. His book provides a road map for both the self publisher and those who choose to ha
Author: Hunbatz Men
Publisher: Bear & Company
Keywords: key, destiny, cycle, pleiadian, maya, calendars
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-12-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1591431050
ISBN-13: 9781591431053
Mayan daykeeper Hunbatz Men reveals the multi-calendar system of the Maya that guided the lives of his ancestors and how it can guide us today • The first book to reveal the secrets of the Mayan Pleiades calendar: the Tzek’eb • Explains how the Maya used their astronomical knowledge to guide their lives on Earth The Mayan Calendar has taken on special prominence with the imminent arrival of 2012, a date that many claim is the end of that calendar. However, as Mayan elder and daykeeper Hunbatz Men shows, the cosmological understanding of his ancestors was so sophisticated that they had
Author: Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Keywords: cultures, clocks, calendars, time, empires
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-10
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0870816721
ISBN-13: 9780870816727
In this wide-ranging, intriguing journey across centuries, Aveni traces the modern calendar’s roots back to Greek pastoral poetry and prehistoric African bone markings, then compares Western, Chinese, Maya, Inca and tribal time systems. He also fathoms our division of time into days, weeks, months, seasons and years for clues to our psychology and worldview. He notes that scientists who believe that previous universes existed before the Big Bang echo the Maya and Aztec view of time as cyclical.
Author: Geoff Stray
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: books, wooden, calendars, ancient, mayan
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2007-11-13
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802716342
ISBN-13: 9780802716347
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 us
