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Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Volume Two: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy

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Perhaps this book is quite detailed and scientific in nature but not for a casual reading in your spare time. The information is presented in four parts:
+ the first part covers the topics of origins of solar and lunar calendars, origins of the civil calendar, decanal clocks, various water clocks;
+ second part presents the documents
+ third - bibliography
+ and fourth - illustrations
However, I found it very difficult and annoying to have to flip the pages back and forth between the first part to second (documents) or forth (illustrations) whenever author mentions something specific.
Problem - no images in the main text.
It was perhaps designed as a lecture with the hand-outs ....
The quality of the illustrations is also very poor ...

Unless you are required to read this book, I'd look for something else.