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75 pages of results. 51. A possible connection between the Aztec Sun Stone and western civilisations [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1997:1 (Oct 1997) Home | Issue Contents A possible connection between the Aztec Sun Stone and western civilisations Flavio Barbiero Fig. 1 In an article in C&C Review ( 'Relation between the perpetual calendar based on the 128 years cycle and the Central American Calendar', C&CR 1996:2 , pp. 12-15), I suggested that the Sun Stone', carved by the Aztecs in 1492 (see fig.1 ), could be the representation of a mechanical device, a sort of astronomical clock, capable of measuring the time according to a calendar based on a 128 year cycle. The ...
52. Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... (9 ). The Sothic period, a computation based on the rising of the star Sothis (Spdt in Egyptian), or Sirius, became the alpha and omega for the numerical construction of Egyptian chronology. The Egyptian year, for a considerably long period of history consisted of 360 days; at some date in history, in a calendar reform, five days were added to the year. Under the Ptolemies another reform was contemplated, that of introducing a leap year every four years. In -238, in the ninth year of Ptolemy III Euergetes, a priestly decree was published in the Delta; in the last century it was found in Tanis and is known as the ...
53. On "the Year -687" [Journals] [Kronos]
... , but in Legge's example they are the same- that is, the same numbers, but actually different years. Examination of the calculated dates of eclipses and lunations in Chalmers' tables shows that they pertain to the astronomical year, even where Legge has captioned them "B .C ." (All dates are given in the Gregorian calendar, which may also lead to confusion.) Before we can take up the matter of verifying the date March 23rd, some remarks on the Chinese calendar must be made. Basically, it was lunar, but in Chinese thought the calendar was much more than a scheme for regulating the days, months, and years. It was ...
54. The "So-Called" Fixed Sothic Date of Sesostris III, 1872 B. C. [Journals] [Kronos]
... the work of Parker (1950) and Neugebauer (1938). Examination of the facts, however, shows that the date rests on certain very doubtful assumptions, and that there is absolutely no evidence at all for a Sothic cycle having had any effect on the ancient Egyptians. It is assumed by Parker (a ) that a lunar calendar existed (which is a quite reasonable assumption since all primitive peoples recognise the lunar cycle, which, however, repeats itself every 25 years ); (b ) that the Egyptians, after years of observation and written records, introduced a civil calendar (in Parker's opinion in c. 2937 BC) which at its introduction was NOT ...
55. The Role Of The Nile In Egyptian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the descent made by the water of the great inundation - (under) King of S & N Egypt, Baienre, LPH. ' Gardiner [3 ] puts the reign of Binere/Merneptah from 1224-1214'. (These are historical' dates, equivalent to astronomical' dates of from -1223 to -1213.) Retrojecting the various calendars gives III 3ht 3 Egyptian = August 26 Julian = August 15 Gregorian, -1223. Kitchen himself prefers [4 ] to have the reign lower by about 11 years, which would make III 3ht 3 Egyptian = August 23 Julian = August 12 Gregorian, – 1212. Any dates in the vicinity of these could be considered for the ...
56. Sothic Dating: A "Surrealjoinder" (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... seem in order in the hope, probably vain, that I can persuade them of the possible correctness of my position. Let us begin with Dr. Mage's remarks. He questions my use of the verb "shown" in reference to the Senmut and Ramesseum astronomical ceilings. Of course these ceilings were not for "show". The calendar was surely important in the after life or it would not appear on a tomb or temple ceiling but that variety in depiction meant a change in the celestial order is an unproved proposition. On these two ceilings see paragraphs secs. 220-225 in my Calendars where the great differences in composition are gone into. With regard to the introduction of ...
57. On Number As Artifact: Part 2: Development [Journals] [Horus]
... their use in practical arithmetic, jumped at false conclusions about the ancients. Further, modern writers on the history of science have been impatient with the delight of the ancients in symbolic speculation, a delight which they did not understand and did not want to understand.[1 ] There are many examples of symbolic number speculation with regard to calendar systems, despite the obvious pragmatic purpose of the calendar respecting agriculture and other seasonal activities. In the first installment we mentioned the sidereal month of between 27 and 28 days - not a month' in the usual sense of the complete cycle of lunation, but rather in terms of the moon's position in the starry firmament. Did this ...
58. Forum: Do the Early Middle Ages Survive Only as a Sacred Cow? C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... cannot be condensed into 13 pages without leaving something out. My own contribution to this debate amounts to some 60 articles and two books [2 , 3], publications Palmer is unfortunately unable to quote. The central ideas in this debate are also mine. Specifically, we are dealing with a chronological problem: between Caesar and the Gregorian Calendar Reform, the timeline has 297 years too many; archaeological findings refute the abundance of written documents; Charlemagne never existed, nor did Harun al-Raschid, or Alfred the Great; a mysterious gap also appears in the Old World between Iceland [4 ] and Indonesia [5 ], probably also in China. In order to defend my ...
59. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... more than just coincidence.) The modern concensus of opinion concerning this ancient structure, when taken as a whole, is that it was probably a primitive observatory used to determine the point of sunrise on the first day of summer, to predict eclipses (relatively rare events), while it also served as a kind of "crude" calendar.(1 ) However, my studies show that, far from being merely a "crude" calendar or"primitive" observatory, the site actually constituted a sophisticated and effective device for keeping track of the days, weeks and months and for correlating these time increments to the visible movement of the sun along the horizon. Indeed ...
60. Sun, Moon, and Sothis [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1999:2 (Oct 1999) Home | Issue Contents Sun, Moon, and Sothis http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sun-moon/Sun, Moon, and Sothis: A Study of Calendars and Calendar Reforms in Ancient Egypt. A book by Lynn E. Rose. The history, of calendars is far from cut-and-dried. Almost every topic that this book addresses has long been the subject of heated controversy. Rose sees Hellenistic and Roman Egypt as of unparalleled importance in the history of calendar development. Even the Julian calendar had its origins in Hellenistic Egypt. Very likely, the Julian calendar itself was Sothic- that ...
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