A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... month , and twelve lunar months to a solar year , these being the nearest round numbers , answering to the courses of the sun and moon : and hence it came to pass that the ancients reckoned the luni - solar year to consist of twelve months ...
... month , and twelve lunar months to a solar year , these being the nearest round numbers , answering to the courses of the sun and moon : and hence it came to pass that the ancients reckoned the luni - solar year to consist of twelve months ...
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... months were too short for the return of the sun and seasons , they added a month every other year , and thereby formed the Trieteris , more properly called Dieteris . And when they found this biennial cycle too long , so as to need a ...
... months were too short for the return of the sun and seasons , they added a month every other year , and thereby formed the Trieteris , more properly called Dieteris . And when they found this biennial cycle too long , so as to need a ...
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... months , and solar periods . Geminus tells us , that all the ancient Greeks , by their laws , and the dictates of their oracles , made their years agree with the sun , and their months and days of the month with the course of the moon ...
... months , and solar periods . Geminus tells us , that all the ancient Greeks , by their laws , and the dictates of their oracles , made their years agree with the sun , and their months and days of the month with the course of the moon ...
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... months , ( as the Olympiads , and Pythick games , Bacchanalia , Cerealia , & c . ) kept to the same seasons of the year , and Hesiod's year began in summer , after the rising of the Pleiades , and his month Lenæon was a winter month ...
... months , ( as the Olympiads , and Pythick games , Bacchanalia , Cerealia , & c . ) kept to the same seasons of the year , and Hesiod's year began in summer , after the rising of the Pleiades , and his month Lenæon was a winter month ...
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... months of thirty days , he is to be understood of the ca- lendar months , not corrected by the moon , by reason of the rainy weather , which did not suffer her to appear . And when David appointed twelve courses of guards , one for every ...
... months of thirty days , he is to be understood of the ca- lendar months , not corrected by the moon , by reason of the rainy weather , which did not suffer her to appear . And when David appointed twelve courses of guards , one for every ...
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