Since two synodical revolutions of the moon are slightly longer than two calendrical months it is wisest to start and end each group with a 30-day month.
Only the numerical andcalendrical series on these pages have been considered.
At the end of two months or 59 days the true synodical month would be in advance of the calendrical month by .
The entire calendrical system of the Mayas is based on the cycle principle.
As, according to Babylonian notions, the sun does not properly belong to the heavens and plays an insignificant part in the calendricalsystem in comparison with the moon, sun-worship proper does not seem to have existed in Babylonia.
The Fundamental Principles Of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems.
The moon as the basis of the calendrical system occupies the first place in these reports.
The position of Nibir, or Jupiter, whose course keeps closer to the ecliptic than that of any other planet, served as an important guide in calendrical calculations.
The sun, therefore, plays an insignificant part in the calendricalsystem in comparison with the moon.
The beginning of the calendrical system, indeed, may well have been of popular origin.
In fact, the complicated gearwork and dials of de Dondi's clock constitute a series of equatoria, mechanized in just the same way as the calendricaldevice described by Biruni.
Biruni's calendrical machine is the earliest complicated geared device on record and it is therefore all the more significant that it carries a feature found in later clocks.
Here we have a manifest trace of different systems applying to the ancient tradition calendrical conceptions, dissimilar in each record, and yet all seeming to have proceeded from Chaldea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calendrical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
