Reviews for Mapping Time:calendar+its History

The average rating for Mapping Time:calendar+its History based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-05-04 00:00:00 Wendy Templeton This is a decently interesting history of the calendar and its development, which suffers from the flaw of its own wealth. The historical sections on the Why and How of calendars tend to get bogged down on mind-numbing tables and charts and maths. These are largely confined to the latter half of the book, so it's easy to skip them if you want. There are some earlier swathes of more hard sciencey stuff though that makes the historical narrative clumsy. I was more interested in the history bits, and there is plenty of that, with a pretty universal sweep, including East Asian and Judeo-Islamo calendar keeping.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-26 00:00:00 Randy Reeves While a fascinating study of calendars, clocks and almanacs, Richards falls often into the prose of computer programmers. This one may be of most interest to those who like to write conversion programs and deeply penetrate the mathematics behind calendar systems.