Abstract
THE seven-days week is a division of time which has long been in general use, and is commonly believed to have come down to us frorv at least the time of Moses, but why or how the days have become associated with the planets—the word planet is here used as understood by the ancients—is not so generally known. Mr. Colson's book supplies an immense deal of information on this point, and is obviously the result of a great deal of study and research.
The Week: an Essay on the Origin and Development of the Seven-day Cycle.
By F. H. Colson. Pp. viii + 126. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926.) 5s. net.
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The Week: an Essay on the Origin and Development of the Seven-day Cycle . Nature 120, 326–327 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120326a0
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