Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 76
gin one day later in the week. Therefore itsSunday Letter falls one letter earlier in the alphabeticcycle. But the addition of the intercalary day at theend of February, and not at the end of the year,makes it usual to assign two Dominical Letters toeach bissextile year; the reason for which may… … S v V, $ 1^ ^> u o •Ml 33* *•! I •$*§ «s k ^ 8^ § k § K § 5 I 6 u f! 40 Stars and Telescopes i st March falls one day later in the week on thataccount; so that the Dominical Letter for the re-maining ten months of the bissextile year evidentlydrops back one letter in the alphabetic cycle, —…
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