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The Chronology of Ancient Nations; An English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athar-UL-Bakiya of Albiruni, or Vestiges of the Past

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...same day. Ll-Kindi says: Full-moon is detested because then the light of the '0 moon requires help from the light of the sun, who is the guide of the spirits. Therefore people fear lest the spirits should leave the bodies. Tax months of the inhabitants of Sogdiana were likewise distributed over the four quarters of the year. The first day of the Sughdian month Nausard was the first day of summer. There was no difierence between them and the Persians regarding the beginning of the year and the beginnings of some of the months, but there was a difference regarding the place of the five Epagomemz, as we have heretofore explained. And they did so for no other 'reason but this, that they honoured their kings to such a degree that they would not do the same things which the kings did. They preferred to use as new-year that moment when Jam returned successful, whilst the kings preferred as new-year that moment when Jam started (set out). Some people maintain that these two difierent new-years were to be traced to adiifereuce that was discovered in the astronomical observations, For the ancient Persians used a solar year of 365 days 6 hours 1 minute, and it was their universal practice to reckon these 6 hours plus the 1 minute as a unit (i.e. to disregard the 1 minute in reckoning). But afterwards when Zoroaster appeared and introduced the religion of the Magi, when the kings transferred their residence from Balkh to Persis and Babel and occupied themselves with the afiairsof their reli gion, they ordered new observations to be made, and then they found that I the summer-solstice preceded by five days the beginning of the year, which was the third year after intercalation. In consequence, they gave up their former system and adopted what...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781234284190
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1234284197
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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