The intercalation appears to have been regularly followed from A.
He had proposed the intercalation of a month in the current year, in order, probably, to retard the period for the decision of the question which agitated the Senate and the town.
For Semper's view as to the intercalation of segments in the cephalic region, vide note on p.
The conversion of the larva into the adult takes place in fact by the intercalation of a segmented region between a large mouth-bearing portion of the primitive body and a small anus-bearing portion[139].
Still farther: intercalation was proscribed in Egypt, to such a point that the kings swore, on their accession, never to permit it to be employed during their reign.
M262 The customs and superstitions associated with the Twelve Days or Nights are probably relics of an old heathen festival of intercalationat midwinter.
The meaning of the passage is clear, and can be understood, as critics have already explained, only as implying the intercalation of a 366th day every fourth year.
According to this passage, the intercalation of a month every third or second year, which the Arabs had learned of the Jews, in order to reduce their lunar years to solar years, is absolutely unlawful.
Jonâda first practises the intercalation of a month among the Arabs, 139.
As it does not appear that the above-mentioned rule of intercalation was ever regularly followed, it is impossible to assign exactly the days on which the different years begin.
The intercalary period is 33 years,--one day being added to the common year seven times successively at the end of four years, and the eighth intercalation being deferred till the end of the fifth year.
The order of the days in the cycle is never interrupted by any intercalationthat may be necessary for adjusting the months or years.
The Egyptian intercalary year, however, does not correspond to the Julian leap year, but is the year immediately preceding; and the intercalation takes place at the end of the year, or on the 29th of August.
Before the end of that year the Julian intercalation takes place, and the beginning of the following Egyptian year is restored to the 29th of August.
It would appear, however, that this intercalation did not actually take place till at the expiration of 52 years; for it is impossible, except on this supposition, to understand the intercalation of years mentioned in the Vatican MS.
The intercalation of deposits, containing shells of marine or brackish water, indicate the constant proximity of a body of salt water when the clays which supported the upright trees were formed.
According to older views the increase of the number of somites in front of the mouth would have been regarded as a case of intercalation by new somite-budding of new prae-oral somites in the series.
We are prohibited by a general consideration of metamerism in the Arthropoda from adopting the hypothesis of intercalation of somites.
However, the view that the Mexicans corrected their year by intercalation is rejected by Professor E.
Unlike the Egyptian calendar, however, the Mexican appears to have been regularly corrected by intercalation so as to bring it into harmony with the solar year.
But as to the mode of intercalation our authorities differ.
They may have been derived either from the Stichophormida by closure of the terminal mouth, or from the Stichoperida by intercalation of three or six interradial appendages.
This increased number is commonly the result of an intercalation of new spines between the three or four primary spines; it is sometimes also effected by stronger development of branches of the latter, which become independent.
But the result will be merely a shifting of the inexplicability a point backwards, by the intercalation of another step between the action of the internal condition or power and its external result.
By suppressing 10 d Hou " " Hou " " By the Gregorian rule of intercalation the coincidence of years.
Also when the method of numbering the days from the beginning of the month was adopted, the intercalation was made to correspond with the intercalary day in the Julian calendar.
Had it been so arranged that the additional day was placed after the 30th of June or September, then the first letter would be used until the intercalation is made in June or September, and the second to the end of the year.
Did we continue one letter through the year and then go back two places, it would cause confusion in computation, unless the intercalation be made at the end of the year.
Whenever the intercalation is made there must necessarily be a change in the dominical letter.
Chaitradi year had fallen back to 13th March, by an intercalation of Chaitra itself--in A.
There was an intercalationmade in the calendar this year, which took place on the day after the feast of Terminus.
An intercalation was made in the calendar of this year, intercalary calends being reckoned on the third day after the feast of Terminus.
It was, we see, a curiosity then, this relief cutting, of which the resurrection was to give an enormous impulse to the Book from the facilities of printing and the economies realised by the possibility of intercalation in periodicals.
Naturally then the intercalation of an engraving of this kind in typographical composition is made without difficulty, and the impression of both is taken at once.
The latter declared on the other hand that the intercalation was forbidden in the Zoroastrian calendar, that it was only meant for political emergencies, and that this mode of calculation had never been practised in Khorassan.
The old Persians, therefore, in order to make their calculation agree with the solar year, had made at the end of every hundred and twenty years an intercalationor Kabisa, that is to say, they added one month to that period.
Such as the seeming intercalation of crystalline schists with fossiliferous rocks, or the immediate sequence of the two.
