William E. Gates
- For the magazine publisher William E. Gates, see Midnight Engineering.
William Edmond Gates (December 8, 1863 – April 24, 1940)[1] was an American Mayanist and collector of Mesoamerican manuscripts.[2]
Published works
Gates' published works include:
- The Maya and Tzental Calendars. Comprising the Complete Series of Days, With Their Positions in the Month, For each One of the Fifty-Two years of the Cycle, According to Each System (1900)
- Commentary upon the Maya-Tzental Perez codex (1910)
- An Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs (1931)
- The Dresden codex (1932)
- The Madrid Maya codex (1933)
- Rural education in Mexico and the Indian problem (1935)
- The Maya society and its work (1937)
- Yucatan before and after the conquest: The Maya (1937) (Translation of Relacíon de las cosas de Yucatán)
- A grammar of Maya (1938)
- The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec herbal of 1552 (1939)
References and notes
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .
- ^ "Yucatán en el tiempo", Casares G. Cantón, Raúl; Juan Duch Colell; Michel Antochiw Kolpa; Silvio Zavala et ál; 1998; ISBN 970 9071 04 1; Mérida, Yucatán
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December 8, 1863 |
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