Melon's system divided the 235 lunations into months of thirty days and omitted every sixty-third day.
The Metonic cycle is 235 lunationsor nineteen years, after which period the sun and moon occupy the same position relative to the stars.
The lunationsare estimated with much greater precision.
The lunar year, therefore, contained 354 days, falling short of the exact time of twelve lunations by about 8.
At the end of four cycles, or seventy-six years, the accumulation of the seven and a half hours of difference between the cycle and 235 lunations amounts to thirty hours, or one whole day and six hours.
In nineteen solar years there are 235 lunations, a number which, on being divided by nineteen, gives twelve lunations for each year, with seven of a remainder, to be distributed among the years of the period.
There are numerous instances of the effect of the lunations upon the periods of insanity, whence the name of lunatic has been given to those afflicted with this disease.
It is known that the determining of the periodicity of the moon’s eclipses rests on a knowledge of the cycle of 223 lunations which bring back the same eclipses periodically.
How long did it take the human mind to observe and understand a sufficient number of lunations so as to combine the data they afforded and deduct the law that Meton formulated and to which he has given his name?
This period of two hundred and twenty-three lunations is that described by Ptolemy in the fourth book of his "Astronomy," in which he deals with the average motion of the moon.
The Lunations recur in the same part of the Ecliptic every nineteen years.
The effects of Lunations are subsidiary to the current Lunar directions, and these in turn are subsidiary to the transits, and the transits to the Primary Directions.
These occur in the lunationsimmediately succeeding 552 B.
The Jews used actual lunations for their months, but their year was one depending on the position of the sun, and their calendar was therefore a luni-solar one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lunations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
