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THIS LECTURE concerns both times and dates. Knowing about the seasons is important to the development of an agricultural economy (rather than just being hunter/gatherers). And as we have become industrialized, we have found the need for great precision in measuring time.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Time. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_5
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