... timekeeping, 5, 44–46; intercalation forbidden, 27, 51; Islamic prayer times in, 44, 51–52, 138; water clocks in, 49–52 Arkwright, Richard, 131 Aristotle, 66–71, 82, 84–85, 108–109 Arnold, John, 126 Asia, timekeeping systems in, 24–25 ...
... intercalation. Time-keeping was a local affair, inspired by prevailing idiosyncrasies. The New Year started at different times in different places. Scholars have identified certain preferences among cities to enter the New Year at the ...
... intercalation at some point in the distant future, but we're a long way from needing to make that change. Forget the Moon Yet a third approach to dealing with the incompatible cycles of the sun and moon is to simply forget about trying ...
... intercalation a retrospective " correcting " instead of a use of traditional methods of timekeeping . If the proper relation between padu and nale were observed , it seems that the swarming could be kept in sync with the Kodi months ...
... time, the first calendar was founded on the menstrual cycle. Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of an extra day, week, or month into certain calendar years to make the calendar comply with seasons or moon phases ...
... intercalation.' In relation to timekeeping accord- ing to the lunar mansions, see Julio Samsó, 'Lunar Mansions and timekeeping in Western Islam', Suhayl 8 (2008), pp. 121–161. 35 Second version, BnF MS 1045 fols. 193b–194b and fol. 234 ...
... intercalation and discussion of its nature as a whole, see Shepherd, Markan, 4–18, 27–31. In addition to literature, the term intercalation is also used in other fields like chemistry, university administration, biochemistry, timekeeping ...
... intercalation , as well as names of months , differed according to polis ... Timekeeping , Roman . ] BIBLIOGRAPHY Bowin , John . “ Aristotle on the Order ... TIMEKEEPING , GREEK John Bowin The Greeks devised various horologia ( sundials ...
... intercalation that corresponds to no one's timekeeping but my own. My body of scholarship is an exercise in eugenics, reproducing the illusion of homogeneous (able- bodyminded†) academic writers with Western/rationalist notions of ...
... intercalation after the twelfth month were well established in various ... Timekeeping in Ancient Mesopotamia , ” JESHO 31 ( 1988 ) 122–24 , 131 , 181 ... Time in Ancient Syria 215.