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... moon and other astronomical particulars are contrived to be represented , and an horizontal frame work at the summit of the dial exhibits , by the aids of machinery , a party of knights armed for the Tournay , pursuing each other on ...
... moon and other astronomical particulars are contrived to be represented , and an horizontal frame work at the summit of the dial exhibits , by the aids of machinery , a party of knights armed for the Tournay , pursuing each other on ...
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... moon . This practice of pro- claiming continued until the year of Rome 450 , when C. FLAVIUS , the curule ædile , ordered the Fastior calends to be affixed upon the public places of resort , that the festivals might the more gene- rally ...
... moon . This practice of pro- claiming continued until the year of Rome 450 , when C. FLAVIUS , the curule ædile , ordered the Fastior calends to be affixed upon the public places of resort , that the festivals might the more gene- rally ...
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... moon being too sensibly felt to admit of mysterious deception , these pretenders to supernatural knowledge could not select those luminaries as objects for their impositions on the superstitious ; hence the other planets , whose ...
... moon being too sensibly felt to admit of mysterious deception , these pretenders to supernatural knowledge could not select those luminaries as objects for their impositions on the superstitious ; hence the other planets , whose ...
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... moon : which number , if under 5 , is represented by so many points ; but if it be 5 , then a line is drawn from the notch , or day to which it belongs , with a hook returned back against the course of the line ; which seems to be ...
... moon : which number , if under 5 , is represented by so many points ; but if it be 5 , then a line is drawn from the notch , or day to which it belongs , with a hook returned back against the course of the line ; which seems to be ...
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... moon , which comes from the Latin mensis ; and this latter from the Greek ny ; while the Hebrew word for a month is likewise the one used for the moon , or rather for the new moon , at which time the Jewish months commenced . In the ...
... moon , which comes from the Latin mensis ; and this latter from the Greek ny ; while the Hebrew word for a month is likewise the one used for the moon , or rather for the new moon , at which time the Jewish months commenced . In the ...
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