Mapping Time

This is a work of enthusiastic research. Richards makes even the most arcane complications arising from the accident of Earth's spin and orbit seem facinating. * New Scientist Sat 28th November 1998. *
..a substantial work, perhaps more useful as a reference tool than David Ewing Duncan's more story-oriented Calender * Library Journal *
This is a book full of fascinating snippets of information....a fascinating book to dip into, though not necessarily to read in one great gulp. This is a great buy for Christmas for that pedant in your life, who will enjoy explaining the origins and foundations of calenders and time itself * Morning Star, Monday 14th December 1998 *
...an easily accesible mine of material....the mathematics never obtrudes. It gives the book stiffening, and those who are tempted to skip it will be left with a rather weak medley of history...those who read his account carefully will emerge with a good idea of what a lunae-solar calender is....Richards does not flinch from some useful tabulations of his material, and he does grasp the underlying mechanisms * Times Literary Supplement, Friday 11th December 1998 *
....there could be no more timely book....a historical and multicultural over-view of calender making * The Sunday Times *
This is a work of enthusuastic research.....Ricahrds makes even the most arcane complications arrising from the accident of the Earth's spin and orbit seem fascinating * New Scientist *