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Description: How different parts of the world made different kinds of clocks based on where they lived and what kind of weather they had to predict.
History of Calendars (Egyptian, Lunar, Roman, Gregorian Reform — When & Where) | Infoplease.com The purpose of the calendar is to reckon past or future time, to show how many days until a certain event takes place—the harvest or a religious festival—or how long since something important happened. The earliest calendars must have been strongly influenced by the geographical location of the people who made them. In colder countries, the concept of the year was determined by the seasons, specifically by the end of winter. But in warmer countries, where the seasons are less pronounced, the Moon became the basic unit for time reckoning; an old Jewish book says that “the Moon was created for the counting of the days.â€
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| Page title: | History of Calendars (Egyptian, Lunar, Roman, Gregorian Reform — When & Where) | Infoplease.com |
| Keywords: | Calendars Council of Trent Gregorian calendar Julian Lunation Roman Catholic Church Egyptian history lunar A Better Adoption the Reform Adopted Gradually ancient calender civil time definition equinox International Meridian Conference day kinds origin days and months seasons sidereal solar solstice based on sun defined reckoning zones universal world |
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