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"Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, or about any other kind of week; it represents an arbitrary rhythm imposed on our activities, unrelated to anything in the natural order. But where the week exists—and there have been many cultures where it doesn't—it is so deeply embedded in our experience that we hardly ever question its rightness, or think of it as an artificial convention; for most of us it is a matter of 'second nature.'

The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week

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"Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/03/1989
    ISBN13: 9780226981659, 978-0226981659
    ISBN10: 0226981657

    Number of Pages: 220

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    "Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, or about any other kind of week; it represents an arbitrary rhythm imposed on our activities, unrelated to anything in the natural order. But where the week exists—and there have been many cultures where it doesn't—it is so deeply embedded in our experience that we hardly ever question its rightness, or think of it as an artificial convention; for most of us it is a matter of 'second nature.'

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