Primitive Time-reckoning: A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoplesNilsson, Martin P. (Martin Persson)
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Primitive Time-reckoning: A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples
Nilsson, Martin P. (Martin Persson)
Chronology
Intercalation (cp. month, intercalary,) cyclical, 362;
in Greece, 368;
empirical, 243, 359;
origin of, 240;
pre-Mohammedan, 253;
regulated by the solstices, 265;
by the stars, 247
Israelitish festivals at full moon, 341;
intercalation, 244;
months, 233;
new year, 272
King in charge of the calendar, 352
Knots, 104, 320
Kugler on Babylonian intercalation, 260
Landmarks indicating times of the day, 21;
for observation of solstices and equinoxes, 311
Latin expressions for times of the day, 37;
star-names, 113
Lunar month, see Month.
Lunar months of European peoples, 294, 304, 305
Markets, in Arabia, 251;
in Canaan, 334
Market-week, 324
Measures of time, 42
Monsoons, 57, 87
Month, 147;
division of, 155, 159;
halving of, 166;
tripartite division of, 167;
quarters of, 170;
intercalary, 243;
of the Wadschagga, 203;
lunar, 5;
number of days in, 149;
sidereal, 4;
synodic, 5
Month-names, 174;
from festivals, 345;
from seasons and occupations, 218, 227;
from stars, 227, 247;
absence of, 223;
multiplicity of, 222;
old Greek, 364;
pairs of, 224;
popular European, 282;
variability of, 221
Months, counting of, 148, 217;
numbering of, 188, 233;
series of, 174;
incomplete, 240, 246;
Semitic, 226
Moon (cp. full moon, new moon) course of, 147;
invisibility of, 149;
phases of, 151, 155;
smaller phases, 159;
position of, 150;
time counted by, 16
Mountains as landmarks, 21
Nasi, 253
New moon, celebration of, 151
New moons, counting in, 151, 235
New Year, 8, 91, 267;
Egyptian, 278;
festivals of, 268
Night, parts of, 39;
times of, indicated by the stars, 40
Nights, counting in, 13
‘Noon-line’, 21
Nundinae, 333
Oktaeteris, 1, 363
Olympiads, 364
Pars pro toto counting, 358;
of days, 16;
of weeks, 358;
of years, 92
Picture-writings, 103
Planets, 120, 124
Plant as sun-dial, 19
Pleiades the, as indicating seed-time, 134;
special significance of, 129
Pleiades-year, 275
Priests as calendar-makers, 350
Qalammas, 253
Quarters of the moon, 170
Rainy and dry seasons, 54, 88;
two, 62
Sabbath, 329
Scandinavian (cp. Icelandic, Swedish) divisions of the day, 21;
observation of solstices, 316;
seasons, 74;
week-reckoning, 80
Schools of astronomy, 354
Seasonal points, 46
Seasons, 45;
cycles of, 65;
number: two, 54;
two or three, 72, 75;
three, 64;
four or five, 58, 63;
six, 60;
s. and months, 218;
regulation of, 70;
subdivision of, 61, 72
Sea-voyages, stars a guide to, 125, 353
Shabattu, 329
Shadow, time of day reckoned according to, 19
Shifting method of time-reckoning, 8
Solstices, 220;
festivals regulated by, 344;
months regulated by, 265;
observation of, 311
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