Comments for Clocksandwatches blog http://clocksandwatches.wordpress.com Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Ancient calendars used in the past by Charles Krause http://clocksandwatches.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/ancient-calendars-used-in-the-past/#comment-3 Charles Krause Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:52:56 +0000 http://clocksandwatches.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/ancient-calendars-used-in-the-past/#comment-3 Interesting take on calendars. I wrote a piece on calenders and time keeping systems, how they are constructed, and the basis of calenders as systems, in general. I hadn't considered contrasting the similarities of various ancient calendar systems, however. Still, it makes sense that there would be commonalities: people tend to use calendars for similar purposes, regardless of their culture, and astronomical phenomena (which are the same for everyone, everywhere, and relatively stable over huge stretches of time) are just too useful for timekeeping to pass up. Interesting take on calendars. I wrote a piece on calenders and time keeping systems, how they are constructed, and the basis of calenders as systems, in general.

I hadn’t considered contrasting the similarities of various ancient calendar systems, however.

Still, it makes sense that there would be commonalities: people tend to use calendars for similar purposes, regardless of their culture, and astronomical phenomena (which are the same for everyone, everywhere, and relatively stable over huge stretches of time) are just too useful for timekeeping to pass up.

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