Primitive Time-reckoning
A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples
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PRIMITIVE TIME-RECKONING
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. THE DAY.
CHAPTER II. THE SEASONS.
CHAPTER III. THE YEAR.
CHAPTER IV. THE STARS.
CHAPTER V. THE MONTH.
CHAPTER VI. THE MONTHS.
CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. OLD SEMITIC MONTHS.
1. BABYLONIA.
2. THE ISRAELITES.
3. THE PRE-MOHAMMEDAN ARABIANS.
CHAPTER IX. CALENDAR REGULATION. 1. THE INTERCALATION.
CHAPTER X. CALENDAR REGULATION. 2. BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
APPENDIX: THE EGYPTIAN YEAR.
CHAPTER XI. POPULAR MONTHS OF THE EUROPEAN PEOPLES.
CHAPTER XII. SOLSTICES AND EQUINOXES. AIDS TO THE DETERMINATION OF TIME.
CHAPTER XIII. ARTIFICIAL PERIODS OF TIME. FEASTS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE CALENDAR-MAKERS.
CHAPTER XV. CONCLUSION.
1. SUMMARY OF RESULTS.
2. THE GREEK TIME-RECKONING[1191].
ADDENDUM TO P. 78 NOTE 2 (P. 80).
LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED.
INDEX.
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