astronomical year
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A 364-day year is about one day and a quarter shorter than the roughly 365-day astronomical year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The “horizon calendar,” proposed in a new study, relied on natural landmarks in the valley’s rugged eastern mountains, and was kept in sync with the astronomical year by a temple atop a sacred volcano.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
His astronomer, by name Sosigenes, did his best, but assumed the astronomical year to be 11 min.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
It appears that in China there is no attempt to make the civil year or year of the calendar coincide with the astronomical year.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
The astronomical year is reckoned as beginning when the sun enters Capricorn, our winter solstice, and is thus more reasonably defined than is the commencement of our New Year, which is nine days late.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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