Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Solomon Taibi (taibi@ix.netcom.com)
21 Oct 1995 15:07:40 GMT
In <mls-2010950139550001@mls.dialup.access.net> mls@panix.com (Michael
L. Siemon) writes:
>
>In article <46769r$eeg@news.si.usherb.ca>, Claude Dion
><cdion@planck.chimie.usherb.ca> wrote:
>
>There seem, in fact, to be TWO independent (or mostly so, anyway :-))
sources
>for the 7-day week, Jewish on the one hand (and through Christian
usage that
>influences much of Europe, most directly the Greek and
Greek-influenced
>states) and an astrological
For those who are interested in a scolarly treatment of these issues
I recommend:
"The Seven Day Circle" by Eviatar Zerubavel (Collier Macmillan 1985)
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S. Taibi
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