It has always sought to bring the divine into human life byintercalating acts of God among facts of nature.
It is not the province of faith either to flout scientific knowledge, or to contaminate the material on which science works by intercalating what M.
M265 Early attempts of the Aryan peoples to correct the lunar year by intercalating a month at intervals of several years instead of intercalating twelve days in every year.
Why they abandoned the simple and obvious expedient of annually intercalating twelve days, and adopted instead the more recondite system of intercalating a month of thirty days every two and a half years, is not plain.
Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.
The old practice ofintercalating a month was of course dropped.
Hence it may be seen that by intercalating a month every three years the new moons are restored, very nearly, to the place they occupied three years before.
Thus we are told that the Theban priests, who particularly excelled in astronomy, were acquainted with the true length of the solar year, and harmonized the calendar with it by intercalating a day every few, probably every four, years.
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