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Sidereal Years — Catalogue Uses in Archaeoastronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

K. Barlai  and
I. Ecsedy
K. Barlai
Affiliation:
Konkoly Observatory P.O.B. 67 H-1525 Budapest XII, Hungary
I. Ecsedy
Affiliation:
Orientalist Research Centre Budapest, Hungary

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In ancient societies the Sun was the natural time marker in daytime and base for the calendar. At night, however, the stars, their movements, risings and settings, disappearence and reappearence served quite obviously as time-keepers, and people were not always conscious that they measured time using two slightly but fundamentally different clockworks.

Type
Part 3: Concepts, Definitions, Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 197 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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