The astronomy of the Bible : an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture (1909)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 345
West POSITION OF THE NEW MOON AT THE EQUINOXES. it is most nearly horizontal, lying on its back, at thespring equinox. It is clear from this symbol, therefore,that the Babylonians began their year in the spring. This method, by which the new moon was used as akind of pointer for determining the… … BOUNDARY-STONE IN THE LOUVKE ; APiROXIMATE DATE, B.C. 1200. (From a pliotograph by Messrs. W. A. Mansell.) 318 THE YEAR 319 on the astronomical methods of the ancients have sup-posed them to have used. But we know from the ancientinscription already quoted that it was actually used ; itwas…
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