Dimensions
148 x 175 x 10mm
A much-needed guide to the Mayan calendar systems and the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.
The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross-referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate - far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle. They tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. Providing a much-needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems, this book also covers the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.
