Title: Let Me Count the Days
Title Record # 115372
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1981-10-00
Type: ESSAY
Series: Asimov's Essays: F&SF
Language: English
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Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1981-10-00
Type: ESSAY
Series: Asimov's Essays: F&SF
Language: English
Synopsis: The 16th century scholar Joseph Scaliger used the solar cycle, lunar cycle and Roman indiction cycle to fix the first day of his chronological system at January 1, 4713 B.C. The Julian day system simplifies date arithmetic and has been adopted in astronomy and other fields.
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1981 | 1981-10-00 | ed. Edward L. Ferman | Mercury Press, Inc. | $1.50?$: US dollar |
164 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | David Hardy | ||
Counting the Eons | 1983-01-07 | Isaac Asimov | Doubleday | 0-385-17976-6 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
xi+ 179 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | Kiyoshi Kanai | |
Counting the Eons | 1984-00-00 | Isaac Asimov | Granada | 0-246-12073-8 | £7.95?£: UK pound |
xi+ 179 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic |