The dawn of astronomy; a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians (1894)
Lockyer, Joseph Norman,Sir,1836-1920 · London, Cassell · leaf 99
e river, and the associatedtemple, also face the place of sunrise at the winter solstice. The list of solar solstitial temples, so far probably traced, isas follows :— Place and Temple. Amplitude. Declination. Date. Kasr Kerun 27° S. of E. 8.2.3^° S.E. , Karliak (O) ... 261^^ S. of E. S. 23f… … 80 THE DA ]yx OF ASTRONOMY [(IIAI. YIII. We have seen that it did not require any great amount ofastronomical knowledge to determine either the moment of thesolstice or the moment of the equinox. The most natural thing
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