Description
Book SynopsisThis unique resource now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, Babylonian, Samaritan, and Nepalese calendars, plus expanded treatments of Islamic and Hebrew calendars. The astronomical functions have been rewritten for more accurate results and include calculations of moonrise and moonset.
Trade Review'It retains all the features that made the first edition … such a wonderful resource, while adding much new material … If you are at all interested in time and calendars, this book must find a place on your desk.' Victor J. Katz, Mathematical Reviews
Table of Contents1. Calendar basics; Part I. Arithmetical Calendars: 2. The Gregorian calendar; 3. The Julian calendar; 4. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars; 5. The ISO calendar; 6. The Icelandic calendar; 7. The Islamic calendar; 8. The Hebrew calendar; 9. The Ecclesiastical calendars; 10. The old Hindu calendars; 11. The Mayan calendars; 12. The Balinese Pawukon calendar; 13. Generic Cyclical calendars; Part II. Astronomical Calendars: 14. Time and astronomy; 15. The Persian calendar; 16. The Bahá'í calendar; 17. The French Revolutionary calendar; 18. Astronomical Lunar calendars; 19. The Chinese calendar; 20. The modern Hindu calendars; 21. The Tibetan calendar; Part III. Appendices: A. Function, parameter, and constant types; B. Cross references; C. Sample data; D. Lisp implementation.
