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Living the Lunar Calendar
Wayne Horowitz
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Description for Living the Lunar Calendar
Paperback. Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Editor(s): Steele, John M.; Ben-Dov, Jonathan; Horowitz, Wayne. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HDD; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 976.
Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of certainty as to whether a month will begin on a given day or the next. The papers in this volume address the ... Read more
Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of certainty as to whether a month will begin on a given day or the next. The papers in this volume address the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842174814
SKU
V9781842174814
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99-3
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