METONIC CYCLE

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METONIC CYCLE , in

chronology

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of
time
- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, xp6vos)

, a

period

PERIOD
PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round,
circuit
- CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)
, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

of 19 years during which there are 235 lunations, so called because discovered by Meton. Computation from

modern

MODERN

data shows that 235 lunations are 6939 days, 16.5

hours

HOURS, CANONICAL

; and 19

solar

SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

years, 6939 days, 14.5

hours

HOURS, CANONICAL

. The relation between integral numbers of months and years expressed by Meton's

rule

RULE

therefore deviates only two hours from the truth. Since 19

Julian

JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

years make 6939 days, 18 hours, the relation errs by only 1.5 hour when the

Julian

JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

year is taken. Meton was an Athenian astronomer (fl. 432 B.C.).

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