Download or read book The Calendar Plant of China the Cosmic Tree and the Date Palm of Babylonia written by Terrien de Lacouperie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Calendar Plant of China the Cosmic Tree and the Date Palm of Babylonia Classic Reprint written by A. Terrien De Lacouperie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Calendar Plant of China, the Cosmic Tree, and the Date Palm of Babylonia It has been looked upon as a late alteration of a dialectic variant of kishlcanu. An objection to this view would be that the latter word was not a name for the palm-tree; but it is not impossible that the word may have been occasionally applied to that tree in after times because of its great importance for the population of the country. The explanation being unsatisfactory, it has been suggested that, the regular name for date-palm being now known as gishimmaru, the word musuhkan was simply a name for the palm-tree in generalw'. Let us remark in favour of this view that. The initial syllabic sign of Musukkan is no other than the symbol Me which we have come to consider as the original one for the date-palm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Calendar Plant of China the Cosmic Tree and the Date Palm of Babylonia written by Terrien De Lacouperie and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering work, Terrien de Lacouperie explores the symbolism and mythology of three plants that have played important roles in the culture and history of Asia and the Middle East. His insights into the connections between calendars, cosmology, and horticulture shed new light on the complex relationships between nature and society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library Catalogue Subject catalogue written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese American Calendar written by Windon Chandler Welch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese-American Calendar: For the 102 Chinese Years Commencing January 24, 1849, and Ending February 5, 1951 The day is now recognized as beginning at midnight, and this has been the practice for a number of centuries, though the Chinese did not originally consider the day as beginning at that time._ The date of the astronomical new moon, even though its occurrence be barely before midnight by local time at Peking, China, is always the first day of a month. The Chinese year commences with the day on which occurs the second new moon after the day of the winter solstice, and, therefore, can not begin earlier than January 20 nor later than February 20. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Calendar of the Gods in China Classic Reprint written by Timothy Richard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Calendar of the Gods in ChinaThis Calendar of the Chinese gods was prepared during an enforced absence in Japan in the summer of 1900. But owing to the pressure of other duties it was not published, as I wished to improve it. However, the pressure of other business continued. Therefore, though imperfect, its publication may save others from going needlessly over the same ground, and may be of some aid to a right attitude towards the millions who now worship many gods, because they have not an opportunity of knowing anything better. So I send it forth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Calendars and Years written by John M. Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year used in early Mesopotamian administrative practices in order to simplify accounting procedures. Historians frequently use handbooks and tables for converting dates in ancient calendars into the familiar BC/AD calendar that we use today. But very few historians understand how these tables have come about, or what assumptions have been made in their construction. The seven papers in this volume provide an answer to the question what do we know about the operation of calendars in the ancient world, and just as importantly how do we know it? Topics covered include the ancient and modern history of the Egyptian 365-day calendar, astronomical and administrative calendars in ancient Mesopotamia, and the development of astronomical calendars in ancient Greece. This book will be of interest to ancient historians, historians of science, astronomers who use early astronomical records, and anyone with an interest in calendars and their development.
Download or read book Calendar of the Gods in China 1916 written by Rev. Timothy Richard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Calendar of the Gods in China, 1916 This Calendar of the Chinese gods was prepared during an enforced absence in Japan in the summer of 1900. But owing to the pressure of other duties it was not published, as I wished to improve it. However, the pressure of other business continued. Therefore, though imperfect, its publication may save others from going needlessly over the same ground, and may be of some aid to a right attitude towards the millions who now worship many gods, because they have not an opportunity of knowing anything better. So I send it forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical Calendar Its Theory and Construction Classic Reprint written by Samuel Butcher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical Calendar, Its Theory and Construction Immoveable Feasts of the prayer-book. Their Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, how placed. The Order of the Saints' Days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars written by Stephen Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Assyrian Sacred Tree written by Mariana Giovino and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Download or read book A Little History of the World written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
Download or read book The Collapse of Complex Societies written by Joseph Tainter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.
