| 单词 | solar year |
| 例句 | Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The cycle referenced in the title is a system for synchronizing the ritual and solar years by adding extra months to the calendar at intervals of two years, but not in the eighth year. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Faced with an old Roman calendar that was itself drifting out of sync with the solar year, he recognized the Alexandrian calendar as a worthy model for a proposed revision. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z No matter how you arrange it, 12 lunar months only add up to about 354 days—roughly 11 short of the solar year’s length. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z While the Gregorian calendar is based on the solar day, the traditional Chinese calendar is lunisolar — a solar year subdivided into lunar cycles of 29.53 days. The Complex Challenge of Chinese Time 2012-09-04T15:07:03Z As a lunar year is approximately 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added at regular intervals to preserve the match with the cycle of the seasons. The Complex Challenge of Chinese Time 2012-09-04T15:07:03Z Some form of government must have organized the labor and materials necessary to construct the walls and tower at Jericho, which may have served as an observatory to mark the passage of the solar year. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Maya developed a calendar that tracked many cycles simultaneously, including the solar year and the “calendar round,” a period of 52 years. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less. Saturday snapped a heat wave, and also ended our time of longest days 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk'in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the "Long Count" and a lunar system. Earliest evidence of Maya calendar found inside Guatemalan pyramid 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Highly skilled Maya astronomers and mathematicians calculated the solar year at 365.2420 days. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the research indicated "the site was a calendar based on a tropical solar year of 365.25 days". Stonehenge was a solar calendar, according to research 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Australia rolled out a very simple regulatory model for deploying rooftop solar years ago. Why investing in renewables fast, not gradually, makes costs drop significantly 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z However you make sense of the story of the Son of Man and its intersection with the turning of the solar year, their intermingling is no accident. Another crazy Christmas with Donald Trump: But he can't wreck it, because he doesn't understand it 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Each year, the month begins around 11 days prior to when it started in the previous solar year. Eid: How is the start of the Muslim festival determined? - BBC News 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z They calculated the number of days between one rising of the star and the next as 365 days—a solar year. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The appearances and disappearances of constellations in the night sky yielded patterns that served as signs of predictable weather changes in the solar year of 365 or 366 days. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The Islamic calendar is slightly shorter than the solar year, so Ramadan gradually shifts across the seasons. Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is about to make U.S. Olympic history 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Each solar year in the Julian calendar would be 365.25 days long. The Tangled History of Leap Years 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Instead of being a bit shorter than the solar year, it was a bit longer. Behind the Logic, and Lore, of Leap Day 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z This calendar was so accurate that it fell short of the true solar year by only six hours. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “There's nothing sacrosanct about locking a calendar to the solar year the way ours is,” says Evans. The Surprising History Behind Leap Year 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z This more sparing use of leap years lets the calendar resolve a discrepancy with the solar year in the Julian calendar. Your Wednesday Briefing: Donald Trump, iPhone, Stanford University 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Except for one thing: an actual solar year is not 365 days and 6 hours long. The Tangled History of Leap Years 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z This reduced the number of leap years over four centuries from 100 to 97, cutting the average length of the calendar year to 365.2425 days—pretty close to the length of the solar year. Behind the Logic, and Lore, of Leap Day 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z He also calculated the length of the solar year as 365.3586805 days. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This system produces an average year length of 365.2425 days, just half a minute longer than the solar year. The Surprising History Behind Leap Year 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z That is because the modern calendar of 365 days a year - with an extra day every four years - does not correspond exactly to the solar year of 365.2422 days. Stonehenge winter solstice celebrated - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z That’s because a Martian solar year lasts for two of our Earth years. We're all going to Mars on really fast VASIMR rockets 2013-11-19T09:36:00Z Thus the Deluge lasted a whole lunar year, plus eleven days—that is to say, as Ewald well remarks, a solar year of 365 days. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Equally evident is it that they were able to measure the solar year as exactly as modern astronomers. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z But even this system was flawed, because the 0.25 day leap year adds annually is a bit longer than the solar year's leftover 0.242 day. The Surprising History Behind Leap Year 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z For civil purposes, solar years are used in Bengal, including Orissa, and in the Tamil and Malayāḷam districts of Madras, and lunar years throughout the rest of India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z And he can boast with Emerson: "I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Cæsar's hand and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The date is, of course, the leap day, added to February every four years to reconcile the 365-day calendar with the reality of the solar year. City Room: Silence Continues Over Report Due Last Summer 2012-03-08T19:55:04Z The Egyptians measured time by a solar year of 360 days, divided into twelve months of thirty days. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The current Gregorian calendar system makes the fractional days of the solar year and leap year calendar nearly equal by occasionally skipping a leap day. The Surprising History Behind Leap Year 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Consequently, the details of the lunar year are shown even in the almanacs which follow the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Hence feasts and fasts were instituted to mark the commencement of the various phases of the solar year, which have continued from the earliest known period, under various names, to our own times. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z A great assemblage of people takes place annually, at the beginning of the Hindu solar year, when the sun enters Aries; and every twelfth year a feast of peculiar sanctity occurs, known as a Kumbh-mela. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Hence, the calendars developed at the lower latitudes were influenced more by the lunar cycle than by the solar year. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z That is because the modern calendar of 365 days a year, with an extra day every four years, does not correspond exactly to the solar year of 365.2422 days. Stonehenge app offers virtual solstice tour 2011-12-22T13:16:04Z We will treat the solar year first, because it governs the lunisolar system, and the explanation of it will greatly simplify the process of explaining the lunar calendar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z I have reckoned, upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, will increase to twenty-eight pounds. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z "The chief days in the year's reckoning, the new and full moons and the seventh and twentieth days of the month, also the beginning of the solar year, are reckoned Apolline." Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z In more northern climes, however, where seasonal agriculture was important, the solar year became more crucial. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z And how much longer is the sidereal, than the solar year? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The length of this sidereal solar year was determined in the following manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Any year that is regulated by the Pleiades, or by any other group of stars, must, as we have seen before, be what is called a sidereal, and not a solar year. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Julius Cæsar found the ancient Roman year in advance of the solar; Gregory found the Julian behind the solar year; so one reforms the calendar by intercalation, the other by suppression. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z As the Roman Empire expanded northward, it organized its calendar for the most part around the solar year. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z Appertaining to, or governed by, the sun: as the solar system, the solar year, solar eclipses. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The Hindus now recognize three standard sidereal solar years determined in that manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Every twelve solar years they expected to have the same weather repeated. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Multiply the difference between the Julian and the solar year by 100, and we have the error in 100 years. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z The Egyptians formulated a civil calendar having 12 months of 30 days, with five days added to approximate the solar year. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z In the same way the beginning of the Jewish year according to the state of the harvest was supplanted by some more fixed relation to the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It may be remarked that, according to modern science, the true mean sidereal solar year measures 365 days 6 hrs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Julius Cæsar, therefore, determined to establish a solar year according to the known period of revolution of the sun, that is 365 days and a quarter. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z In nineteen solar years there are 235 lunations, a number which, on being divided by nineteen, gives twelve lunations, with seven of a remainder, to be distributed among the years of the period. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Five rogue days were tacked on the end of the cycle to complete the solar year. 2010-01-15T08:50:00Z Scarcely more than a year after this proclamation of war against what he chose to consider idolatry he died on the 8th June 632, at the age of 63 lunar or 61 solar years. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The The civil solar year. beginning of it is determined directly by the astronomical solar year; and for religious purposes it begins, with that year, at the moment of the Mēsha-saṁkrānti. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z A hundred years later Hipparchus determined more exactly the length of the solar year, and the eccentricity of the ecliptic, discovered the precession of the equinoxes, and even undertook a catalogue of the stars. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The excess of the solar year beyond the lunar, employed in the calendar to signify the moon’s age at the beginning of the year. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z To all the sphere, To the seven stars and the solar year; also to my father's entire estate that's left after some two years of litigation. The Reclaimers It serves to find the moon's age by indicating the number of days to be added to each lunar year in order to complete a solar year. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 The civil solar year exists in more varieties than one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z But it must be remembered also that the Moslem year is lunar, and thus a little more than eleven days shorter than our solar year. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. Authors differ in regard to the length of the solar year. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z It was thus an effective compromise between the solar year and the lunar month, and contrasts very favourably with the intricate and clumsy years of other ancient systems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Twelve lunar months are nearly 11 days short of the solar year, so that the new moons in one year fall 11 days earlier than they did the preceding year. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 In these circumstances an exact equivalent of the Mēshādi civil solar year cannot be stated; but it may be taken as now beginning on or closely about the 12th of April. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z "Restricted for thirty solar years according to the Probability Graphs," mused Baldy. Restricted Tool As an illustration let us take the case of the supposed solar year of 365 days, and the civil year of 366. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z For personal or political motives the pontiffs had trifled with the intercalation of these months until in 46 B. C. the Roman year was completely out of touch with the solar year. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. This they called the motion of the crystalline heaven, expressed by our poet at the rate of one pace during two hundred solar years. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Its years are by nature sidereal solar years, commencing with the Mēsha-saṁkrānti, the entrance of the sun into the Hindu constellation and sign Mēsha, i.e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Astronomy was sufficiently understood for the accurate measurement of time in the divisions of the solar year. Hernando Cortez Makers of History In connecting the lunar month with the solar year, the framers of the ecclesiastical calendar adopted the period of Meton, or lunar cycle, which they supposed to be exact. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z The ancient Chinese astronomers seem to have known precisely the excess of the solar year beyond 365 days. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning The civil year consisted in general of twelve months or lunations, but occasionally a thirteenth was added in order to preserve its correspondence with the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Humboldt says that in 648 A. D. the Toltecs had a solar year more perfect than that of the Greeks and Romans. Aztec Land The Aztecs of Mexico, on the contrary, had a solar year, and had made an extraordinary advance in computing the true time. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 In this work the last has been accepted as the true length of the solar year, and all calculations have been made accordingly. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Of course this Egyptian year bore no fixed relation to the actual lunar months or solar year, nor therefore to the Jewish year, which was related to both. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture And into it, along with them, entered the self-existent himself, under the assumed form of Brahma; and then he sat vivifying, expanding, and combining the elements, during four thousand three hundred millions of solar years. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Both festivals, of course, belong to a lunar calendar, and move through the solar year every thirty-two years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Is it impious to ask how these builders knew the solar year so completely? The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Now the table of epacts was introduced by Lilius himself, making the excess of the solar year beyond the lunar, in round numbers 11 days. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Such is the year that the Mohammedans use; and since it falls short of a solar year of 365 days by 10 or 11 days, its beginning moves backwards rather rapidly through the seasons. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture This, of course, differs from the solar year by ten days and a bit. More Science From an Easy Chair Inti-Capac-Yupanqui, another remarkable character, divided the kingdom into districts and subdistricts, introduced a complete civil organization, instituted the solar year of three hundred and sixty-five days, and established the system of couriers. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology They divide the year into thirteen months of twenty-nine days each, with the exception of one, which has less, apparently for the purpose of reconciling this lunar with a solar year. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 A new reform was made in 1582, by Pope Gregory XIII., which made the civil and solar years almost exactly agree. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality There are two kinds of solar years, with which we may have to do in a luni-solar calendar—the tropical or equinoctial year, and the sidereal year. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture It is, however, an awkward fact that twelve lunar months give 354 days, so that there are eleven days left over when the solar year is divided into lunar months. More Science From an Easy Chair They had an accurate measure of the solar year and a system of chronology, and many of their writings were historical. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Why should the solar year be so long and no longer? or, this being such a length, why should the vegetable cycle be exactly of the same length? Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions The Muhamedan years are lunar, 33 of which are about 32 solar years. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa For since 12 lunar months fall short of a solar year by 11 days, the moon on the first evening would be about 11 degrees short of her former position. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture They knew the use of hieroglyphical paintings; they could work metals, and cut the hardest stones; and they had a solar year more perfect than that of the Greeks and Romans. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Their measure of the solar year and their numbering of the months were precisely like what had long existed in this part of the country; and they had the same astronomical implements or contrivances. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology From this period until the time when the Atlantics had put a blockade over the Athenians 9000 lunar years had passed which, referred to solar years, make 869. History of the Incas The mean solar year is also assumed to be 365 days 5 hours 55 min. 25-25/57 sec., so that a cycle of nineteen of such years, containing 6939 days 16 hours 33 min. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture He even inaugurated a new calendar, restoring the solar year, and dating the commencement of the New Era from the year of His own Declaration. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era In this way the solar year might be mapped out and divided into Solstices and Equinoxes. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year if tolerably nursed increaseth to 28 pounds. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish As the Gregorian method of intercalation has been adopted in all Christian countries, Russia excepted, it becomes interesting to examine with what degrees of accuracy it reconciles the civil with the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" But 2,300 solar years is an exact number, not only of lunations, but also of "anomalistic" months. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture In this, as in the Gregorian Calendar, the lunar month is abandoned and the solar year is adopted. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era "The Queen's warned off Terra for ten solar years—" They could take that, too. Plague Ship The antient Greeks also used the same solar year of 12 equal months, or 360 days; but every other year added an intercalary month, consisting of 10 and 11 days alternately. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John This exceeds the true solar year by 26 seconds, which amount to a day in 3323 years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The calendar as regulated by Julius Caesar in 46 BC assumed the length of the solar year to be exactly 365 1/2 days, whereas it is eleven minutes and a few with seconds less. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced The Badí calendar is based on the solar year of 365 days, 5 hours, and 50 odd minutes. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas They knew that the true length of the solar year was 365 days and a quarter, nearly. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. By the Julian calendar, or Old Style as it was called, the solar year was estimated at three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours; but it exceeds this by about eleven minutes. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power The first expedient adopted to reconcile the lunar and solar years seems to have been the addition of a month of thirty days to every second year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" According to Beale, she was aged eighty-eight lunar years when she died, on the 27th January, 1836, equivalent to about eighty-five solar years. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Neither of these multiplied by 13 will make up the solar year exactly. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 "Yes, invariably; and the interval in question is termed the solar year." Willis the Pilot Numa reckoned the variation to consist of eleven days, as the lunar year contains three hundred and fifty-four days, and the solar year three hundred and sixty-five. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I In fact, the 7� days by which two lunar years exceeded two solar years, amounted to thirty days, or a full month, in eight years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" "I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Cæsar's hand and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain." Emerson and Other Essays So shall ye have a man of the sphere Fit to grace the solar year. Poems Household Edition The lunar months are made to correspond with the solar year by the interposition of an “adhik” or intercalary month every third year. Deccan Nursery Tales or, Fairy Tales from the South To make the lunar and the solar years correspond, and to determine the exact length of the solar year, was a work of difficulty, and was only gradually effected. Outline of Universal History Lunar Cycle and Golden Number.—In connecting the lunar month with the solar year, the framers of the ecclesiastical calendar adopted the period of Meton, or lunar cycle, which they supposed to be exact. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Julius Caesar, impatient with the difficulties of fitting together the solar and lunar calendars, bade his experts ignore the moon and divide the solar year into twelve months. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain. Poems Household Edition The solar year, the lunar month, and the day were the units, and it is owing to their incommensurability that we find so many calendars proposed and in use at different times. History of Astronomy The Egyptians were the only people in the Old World to frame a solar year. Early European History The Metonic Cycle, which may be regarded as the chef-d'œuvre of ancient astronomy, is a period of nineteen solar years, after which the new moons again happen on the same days of the year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He ascertained the true length of the solar year; and his theory was afterwards brought into general use, but upon a narrow scale, by Pope Gregory XIII, nearly three hundred years after his death. Lives of the Necromancers They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices and the heliacal rising of particular stars. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements The length of the solar year first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year. Early European History Now the day of the year answering to the 19th of July is 200, which, in parts of the solar year, is 0.5476, and the number of years elapsed = Y - 1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This change takes place with epact 25 only, so that the computation of the lunar years may more closely respond to the solar year. The Divine Office They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices, and the heliacal rising of particular stars. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Distant periods they calculated by the solar year, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation The flood lasts twelve months and ten days, i.e., exactly a solar year. Prolegomena The solar day, the solar year, and the lunar month, or lunation, may therefore be called the natural divisions of time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Thus we may take it as fairly certain that from 30 B.C. onwards the Egyptian festivals were stationary in the solar year. The Golden Bough Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which 599:1 is the solar year. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures They acknowledge the solar year, but adopt the lunar, and reckon the months in three different ways, dividing them, however, into weeks of seven days, marking them by the return of the Mohammedan Sabbath. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither This makes it about ten days short of our solar year; and to bring things right again, an extra month, that is a thirteenth month, is inserted in every three years. The Civilization of China Twelve lunations, therefore, form a period of 354 days, which differs only by about 11� days from the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This gradual revolution of the festal Egyptian cycle resulted from the employment of a calendar year which neither corresponded exactly to the solar year nor was periodically corrected by intercalation. The Golden Bough Yet, on the other hand, the convenience of the solar year in computing long periods of time was not unrecognized, since this period is utilized in reckoning the reigns of the Assyrian kings. A History of Science — Volume 1 I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, encreaseth to 28 pounds. A Modest Proposal This uncertainty as to the years of reckoning again emphasizes the fact that the solar year did not have for the Assyrian chronology quite the same significance that it has for us. A History of Science — Volume 1 In point of fact, it does not appear to be quite clearly established as to precisely how the adjustment of days with the lunar months, and lunar months with the solar year, was effected. A History of Science — Volume 1 From that time onward, apparently, the dates of the festivals were determined by the new calendar, and so ceased to rotate throughout the length of the solar year. The Golden Bough Twelve lunar periods, making up approximately the solar year, gave peculiar importance to the number twelve also. A History of Science — Volume 1 |
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