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Description:This book, taken from five years of Origins columns from Archaeology Odyssey, traces the humble beginnings of those things we take for granted and does it in a lively and informative manner with fifteen contributors. From the back cover: The modern calendar was invented by a sixth century A.D. monk named Dennis the Little? Ancient Athenians used randomly chosen juries to judge the accused? A second-century A.D. scholar at the Alexandria Library invented longitude and latitude to map the known world? King Solomon's artisans developed a (somewhat primitive) value for pi?Jack Meinhardt (editor) says in the foreword, "the past, even the most remote past, is not just defunct. Life forms of life, some cultures and civilizations go extinct, having no influence on the course of history. But even in this case the past is not just dead and gone; indeed, to learn about influenceless peoples is to learn something about human possibility --not about who we are, but about who we are not but might have been."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origins of Things (or how the hour got its minutes). To get started finding The Origins of Things (or how the hour got its minutes), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 115

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Biblical Archaeology Society

Release: 2002

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Description: This book, taken from five years of Origins columns from Archaeology Odyssey, traces the humble beginnings of those things we take for granted and does it in a lively and informative manner with fifteen contributors. From the back cover: The modern calendar was invented by a sixth century A.D. monk named Dennis the Little? Ancient Athenians used randomly chosen juries to judge the accused? A second-century A.D. scholar at the Alexandria Library invented longitude and latitude to map the known world? King Solomon's artisans developed a (somewhat primitive) value for pi?Jack Meinhardt (editor) says in the foreword, "the past, even the most remote past, is not just defunct. Life forms of life, some cultures and civilizations go extinct, having no influence on the course of history. But even in this case the past is not just dead and gone; indeed, to learn about influenceless peoples is to learn something about human possibility --not about who we are, but about who we are not but might have been."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origins of Things (or how the hour got its minutes). To get started finding The Origins of Things (or how the hour got its minutes), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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