ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACRONYCHAL
From Greek akronychos at sunset, from acro- + nykh-, nyx night.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACRONYCHAL»
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The Babylonian Theory of the Planets
Acronychal risings are also ill-defined. The Diaries report only the date with no
location, and they are sometimes 'not observed'. Some early examples: -567 I. [
The 11th] or 12th, Jupiter's acronychal rising. -380 X. Around the 26th, Saturn's ...
2
Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and ...
(b) When the author of nz states that "most of the well-known constellations" have
their risings at dawn, he means that their heliacal, rather than their acronychal,
risings are meteorologically significant With regard to the relative importance of ...
William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas
The acronychal rising of Arcturus took place in the 14th degree of Pisces, which
corresponds in the calendar with the 5th of ]\Iarch.—Le Clerc. The acronychal
rising of a star is when it rises at the beginning of night; the acronychal setting is ...
4
The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates: ...
It is true, that Strabo's words import not that the fleet sailed on the very day, but at
the season only, of the acronychal rising of the Pleiades j but yet eighteen or
nineteen days seemed too great a difference to admit even this lax description of
the ...
William Vincent, Samuel Horsley, William Wales, 1797
5
The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan: Including the Shield of ...
The acronychal rising of Arcturus took place in the 14th degree of Pisces, which
corresponds in the calendar with the 5th of March. Le Clerc The acronychal rising
of a star is when it rises at the beginning of night : the acronychal setting is when
...
6
The Discovery of Dynamics : A Study from a Machian Point of ...
Thus, although the acronychal longitudes are almost completely insensitive to the
error, the acronychal latitudes are in principle the latitudes most sensitive to the
errors (however, because the latitude effects are comparatively small at all times
...
7
The remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, including The shield of ...
The wintry tropic] The winter solstice, according to the table of Petavius,
happened in Hesiod's time on the 30th of December. The acronychal rising of
Arcturus took place in the 14th degree of Pisces, which corresponds in the
calendar with the ...
Hesiodus, sir Charles Abraham Elton (6th bart), 1815
8
Absolute Or Relative Motion?: The discovery of dynamics
Thus, although the acronychal longitudes are almost completely insensitive to the
error, the acronychal latitudes are in principle the latitudes most sensitive to the
errors (however, because the latitude effects are comparatively small at all times
...
9
Brady's Book of Fixed Stars
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PARAN MAPS for determining the true or apparent
heliacal tising and the acronychal sertings for any solar position of the zodiac.
These graphs are for every stat discussed in this text. If you prefer to work with
just ...
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Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and ...
MODERN TERMINOLOGY In modern writing on star phases, one encounters the
terms: Except for "acronychal rising," none of these terms is used by the ancient
Greek astronomers. And even "acronychal" poses a problem. Akrony- chos ...
Geminus, James Evans, J. L. Berggren, 2006
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