sidereal year
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Mrs. B. I must also explain to you what is meant by a sidereal year.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.
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 earth’s axis rotates about the pole of the ecliptic, making one revolution and a twenty-six thousandth part of a revolution in the sidereal year, in the opposite direction to its orbital motion.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
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 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)
