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Lecture 11: The Calendar
Category: Education
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2006-10-04 10:35:34
Description: Why are there leap years? This lecture explores the astronomical origins of the calendar. We will discuss lunar and solar calendars and their hybrids in history and tradition (for example, the Islamic Lunar Calendar and the Jewish Luni-Solar Calendar), and the Julian and Gregorian Calendar reforms. Recorded 2006 Oct 4 in 100 Stillman Hall on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
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