Primitive Time-reckoning
by Martin P. Nilsson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nilsson, Martin P. (Martin Persson), 1874-1967
- Title
- Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples
- Credits
- Turgut Dincer, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CE: History: Technical Chronology, Calendar
- Subject
- Chronology
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 64768
- Release Date
- March 9, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PRIMITIVE TIME-RECKONING
- 4.Untitled
- 5.PREFACE.
- 6.CONTENTS.
- 7.INTRODUCTION.
- 8.CHAPTER I. THE DAY.
- 9.CHAPTER II. THE SEASONS.
- 10.CHAPTER III. THE YEAR.
- 11.CHAPTER IV. THE STARS.
- 12.CHAPTER V. THE MONTH.
- 13.CHAPTER VI. THE MONTHS.
- 14.CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSIONS.
- 15.CHAPTER VIII. OLD SEMITIC MONTHS. — 1. BABYLONIA. — 2. THE ISRAELITES. — 3. THE PRE-MOHAMMEDAN ARABIANS.
- 16.CHAPTER IX. CALENDAR REGULATION. 1. THE INTERCALATION.
- 17.CHAPTER X. CALENDAR REGULATION. 2. BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. — APPENDIX: THE EGYPTIAN YEAR.
- 18.CHAPTER XI. POPULAR MONTHS OF THE EUROPEAN PEOPLES.
- 19.CHAPTER XII. SOLSTICES AND EQUINOXES. AIDS TO THE DETERMINATION OF TIME.
- 20.CHAPTER XIII. ARTIFICIAL PERIODS OF TIME. FEASTS.
- 21.CHAPTER XIV. THE CALENDAR-MAKERS.
- 22.CHAPTER XV. CONCLUSION. — 1. SUMMARY OF RESULTS. — 2. THE GREEK TIME-RECKONING [1191] .
- 23.ADDENDUM TO P. 78 NOTE 2 (P. 80).
- 24.LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED.
- 25.INDEX.
- 26.FOOTNOTES:
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