SOURCE: “The Persistence of a Relic” and “Astronomical Facts and Human Failings,” in The World's Work and the Calendar, Richard G. Badger, 1933, pp. 11-16, 22-32.
In the following excerpt, Stiles explores the difficulty of measuring time and the origins of the calendar.
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