The Story of Clocks and Calendars : Marking a Millennium

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January 1, 2001, will mark the beginning of a new thousand-year period in the world. But our earth is more than four billion years old, and humans have lived on our planet for in all probability two hundred thousand years. So how can it be the year 2000? The answer is that it’s the year 2000 only At the Gregorian calendar. At the Hebrew calendar, the year will probably be 5760. At the Muslim calendar, the year will probably be 1420. And At the Chinese calendar, it is going to be 4698. So what year is it actually? It all is dependent upon what calendar you use and whilst you began counting the years.

Here is the fascinating story of timekeeping: how, over thousands of years, calendars and clocks came to be.

00-01 Young Reader’s Choice Award Program Masterlist

Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council


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