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The Rational Almanac: Tracing the Evolution of Modern Almanacs from Ancient Ideas of Time, and Suggesting Improvements

The Rational Almanac: Tracing the Evolution of Modern Almanacs from Ancient Ideas of Time, and Suggesting Improvements

Moses Bruine Cotsworth
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The Rational Almanac - Tracing the Evolution of Modern Almanacs from Ancient Ideas of Time and Suggesting Improvements

13 months to the year. Holidays and festivals, also weekdays fixed on permanent days . 180 illustrations explaining the mystery of the pyramids, sphinx, obelisks, druidical circles, mounds, vertical stones, etc.

Cotsworth was well respected and successful in statistics and accountancy but, according to George Eastman, he was broke in New York by 1924 having spent everything and sold his collection of pictures to finance his International Fixed Calendar League and Eastman stepped in, backed him for a number of years, and applied his calendar within Kodak. In the mid to late twenties it seemed possible - the League of Nations had taken on his calendar and the US government was taking it seriously. Most of this almanac is devoted to investigating and explaining ancient measures of time. I've come across many citations of the importance and lasting worth of Cotsworth's work here but most of them come from doubtful sources; they may be true, or not. A note by Cotsworth explains that this book was printed over a number of years; some of the pyramid stuff before his 1900 trip to Egypt which 'led to those remarkable extensions which proved to be so highly desirable, although they deferred the issue of the book and considerably increased the cost.'
Language
English
Pages
473
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1902

The Rational Almanac: Tracing the Evolution of Modern Almanacs from Ancient Ideas of Time, and Suggesting Improvements

Moses Bruine Cotsworth
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The Rational Almanac - Tracing the Evolution of Modern Almanacs from Ancient Ideas of Time and Suggesting Improvements

13 months to the year. Holidays and festivals, also weekdays fixed on permanent days . 180 illustrations explaining the mystery of the pyramids, sphinx, obelisks, druidical circles, mounds, vertical stones, etc.

Cotsworth was well respected and successful in statistics and accountancy but, according to George Eastman, he was broke in New York by 1924 having spent everything and sold his collection of pictures to finance his International Fixed Calendar League and Eastman stepped in, backed him for a number of years, and applied his calendar within Kodak. In the mid to late twenties it seemed possible - the League of Nations had taken on his calendar and the US government was taking it seriously. Most of this almanac is devoted to investigating and explaining ancient measures of time. I've come across many citations of the importance and lasting worth of Cotsworth's work here but most of them come from doubtful sources; they may be true, or not. A note by Cotsworth explains that this book was printed over a number of years; some of the pyramid stuff before his 1900 trip to Egypt which 'led to those remarkable extensions which proved to be so highly desirable, although they deferred the issue of the book and considerably increased the cost.'
Language
English
Pages
473
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1902

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