sidereal year
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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 Blake, John F.
The early Babylonians used a sidereal year, as will be shown shortly.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
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 Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
Their observations led them to discover the length, very nearly, of the sidereal year, which they made to consist of 365 days, every fourth year adding one day, making the number for that year 366.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness
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 Somerville, Mary
