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... lunar tables of Hansen , and to find a more accurate value for the secular acceleration of the moon's longi- tude and the node of her orbit than any that could be R. A. S. Monthly Notices , Sup .; 1905 . Containing record of solar ...
... lunar tables of Hansen , and to find a more accurate value for the secular acceleration of the moon's longi- tude and the node of her orbit than any that could be R. A. S. Monthly Notices , Sup .; 1905 . Containing record of solar ...
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... lunar theory more accurate than was possible by finest modern observations . ( British Museum collection , No. 35908. ) obtained from modern observations made with instru- ments of the. CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and ...
... lunar theory more accurate than was possible by finest modern observations . ( British Museum collection , No. 35908. ) obtained from modern observations made with instru- ments of the. CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and ...
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... lunar month , and the day were the units , and it is owing to their incom- mensurability that we find so many calendars proposed and in use at different times . The only object to be attained by comparing the chronologies of ancient ...
... lunar month , and the day were the units , and it is owing to their incom- mensurability that we find so many calendars proposed and in use at different times . The only object to be attained by comparing the chronologies of ancient ...
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... in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD II.
... in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD II.
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... lunar cycle of nineteen years was used by the Jews in the fifth century B.C. [ the present reformed Jewish calendar dating from the fourth century A.D. ] , a date a " little more than a century after the grandfathers R. A. S. Monthly ...
... lunar cycle of nineteen years was used by the Jews in the fifth century B.C. [ the present reformed Jewish calendar dating from the fourth century A.D. ] , a date a " little more than a century after the grandfathers R. A. S. Monthly ...
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