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  • THE BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMICAL COMPENDIUM MUL.APIN
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    THE BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMICAL COMPENDIUM MUL.APIN
    HERMANN HUNGER / JOHN STEELE
    MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation, and a short collection of celestial omens. Th...

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  • AN EMPIRE OF WEALTH
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    AN EMPIRE OF WEALTH
    JOHN STEELE GORDON
    "Superb . . . the best one-volume economic history of the United States in a long time and, perhaps, ever." — Newsweek In this illuminating history, John Steele Gordon tells the extraordinary story of the world's first economic superpower. He shows how the American economy became not only the world's largest, but also its most dynamic and innovative. Combining its English polit...

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  • CALENDARS AND YEARS
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    CALENDARS AND YEARS
    JOHN M. STEELE
    Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated sc...

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