It was considered by Biot to have been originally twenty-four, but to have been enlarged to twenty-eight about i ioo B.C., by the addition of determinants for the solstices and equinoxes of that period. [Please select]
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They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices and the heliacal rising of particular stars. [Please select]
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, it is of no importance when it began, so long as sixty pairs of equinoxes and solstices are calculated backwards indefinitely. [Please select]
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Nor again about things which are in motion but which always happen in the same way either necessarily, or naturally, or from some other cause, as the solstices or the sunrise. [Please select]
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Even at the beginning of this dynasty, when the Jesuits came to China, the Chinese astronomers were unable to calculate accurately the length of the shadow of the Sun at the equinoxes and solstices. [Please select]
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