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THE stages by which the Julian calendar as a method of time reckoning was attained are demonstrated by Dr. Martin P. Nilsson in a contribution to vol. 39, pt. 6 of Scientia, which surveys the various methods of measuring time employed by primitive and early peoples, and shows how the conception of a continuum in time, which is the essence of a calendar, has gradually developed.
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Primitive Time Reckoning and the Calendar. Nature 118, 103 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118103a0
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