The Bioscope Or Dial of Life Explained to Which is Added a Translation of S
The Bioscope Or Dial of Life Explained to Which is Added a Translation of S
Granville Penn
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Twelve of these lunar months, constituting one ELEMENTARY CHKONOLOGY. 245 lunar year, are therefore completed in 354 days; that is to say, 10 days, 15 hours, 11 minutes, and 27 seconds, before the twelve of the solar year months are completed. Hence it follows ; 1st, that the lunar year comprehends only 354 days; and, . 2dly, that it is constantly departing from the rule of the solar year, at the rate of about eleven days every year. Correspondence of Solar and Lunar Time. As it is of great imp...ortance to the uses of man- kind to reconcile the two computations, in order that we may be able to know when each lunation begins; that is to say, to know on what days of the solar year the new-moons will fall ; the following method has been devised, for adjusting the two measures. When the solar and the lunar year begin to- gether, that is, when it is new-moon upon ihejirst 'day of January, the moon (as has been said) will complete her twelfth month, 10 days, 15 hours, 11 minutes, 27 seconds, before the sun will have completed his twelfth month ; and, consequently, the moon will be already advanced those ]0 d.
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