sidereal year
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Thus the Babylonians had fixed the length of a tropical year within twenty-five seconds of the truth; their estimate of the sidereal year was barely two minutes in excess.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
The sidereal year is the time occupied by the sun in apparently completing the circuit of the heavens from a given star to the same star again.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
By comparing two successive years they could of course have got at a sidereal year; but this is what they did not do; hence the irregularity which produced the canicular cycle.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
In what way was the primitive year regulated? was it a solar or a sidereal year?
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
The length of time that it takes for the earth to arrive at the same position with respect to the stars, which is called a sidereal year, amounts to 365·2563744 days.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
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