 | Apuleius - Metamorphosis - 1822 - 448 pages
...is • These four vicissitudes are the first points of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, in which the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice, are produced. ' In the original, " Unde fit ut et magnus ille vocitatus annus facile noscatur," but... | |
 | Richard Laurence - 1838 - 386 pages
...this it appears, that he adds his four supernumerary days to the four quarters of the year, viz. at the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice. Had he been conversant with the wisdom of the Egyptians, he would not have computed the year at three... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...solstices " aud "equinoxes;" from these points the different seasons date their commencement. Thus there is the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice. We have now to state what positions they occupied iu the year 1248 of the Christian era. This date... | |
 | Edward Greswell - Calendar, Greek - 1862 - 720 pages
...With reepect to the cardinal points of the Sphere of Eudoxus, that is, the dates which he adopted for the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice, respectively ; we know two of them, the vernal equinox and the winter solstice, from testimony, and... | |
 | 1925 - 1084 pages
...temperate zones there are four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter; beginning, respectively, at the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice — for which, in the north temperate zone, the approximate dates are March 21st, June 21st, September... | |
 | Charles Edward Moldenke - Obelisks - 1891 - 220 pages
...of night as a human-faced deity with the sacred scarab above it, called Kheper or Ptah-SokarOsiris. These four deities also represented the beginning...^which the sun was worshiped are, besides the above, Amen-Rd (in Thebes), Sebek-Rd (in Ombos), and KJmumRd (in Elephantine). All this proves the vast and... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - Astronomy - 1897 - 390 pages
...seen at sunrise? (b) In what direction at sunset? 10. On the ecliptic are four cardinal points; viz. the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice. (§§ 98, 99.) (a) The sun being in the vernal equinox, if the moon were full, near what point of the... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - Imperialism - 1899 - 408 pages
...four principal festivals of the solar worship celebrated in the northern hemisphere were the spring or vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. Their observance can be traced to the remotest period of history or tradition, and belongs to every... | |
 | Garrett P. Serviss - 1910 - 160 pages
...pendulum of his years. In the four circular charts representing the aspect of the heavens respectively at the Vernal Equinox, the Summer Solstice, the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice, few stars fainter than the fourth magnitude are included, and not all even of that magnitude, because... | |
 | Garrett Putman Serviss - Astronomy - 1910 - 156 pages
...pendulum of his years. In the four circular charts representing the aspect of the heavens respectively at the Vernal Equinox, the Summer Solstice, the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice, few stars fainter than the fourth magnitude are included, and not all even of that magnitude, because... | |
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Winter; beginning respectively at the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice... 
