Why are there 7 days in a week and 12 months in a year? What do stars have to do with it? Long ago, people looked up at the night sky. They made up stories to explain the speckled dots of lights. The ancients divided up the year into weeks and days. They assigned “stars” to days and groups of stars to months. We may not know all their stories and beliefs, but we still tell time the same way. Inside this book are the reasons why.
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Armando Lee
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October 17, 2023
Very good introduction to how our measure time and the names we gave them came to be. A great handy guide for astronomers and newbie astrobuff.
Vivek Anand
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July 17, 2019
This book was nice,but not interesting. This say about how days and months founded in the past. But this is good to read.
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Anuj Gupta
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December 17, 2022
I think it is a good book but when I read it.It is worst book ever i seen 😡😡😡
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