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- adjective Of or pertaining to Meton of Athens.
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No month names on what is called the Metonic calendar were previously known, the researchers noted.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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No month names on what is called the Metonic calendar were previously known, the researchers noted.
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The Passover itself is complicated and ties in with the Metonic cycle of years, which involve the Golden Numbers 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The Passover itself is complicated and ties in with the Metonic cycle of years, which involve the Golden Numbers 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19.
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The Passover itself is complicated and ties in with the Metonic cycle of years, which involve the Golden Numbers 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Dr. Freeth, who is also associated with Images First Ltd., in London, explained in an e-mail message that the Metonic calendar was designed to reconcile the lengths of the lunar month with the solar year.
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Dr. Freeth, who is also associated with Images First Ltd., in London, explained in an e-mail message that the Metonic calendar was designed to reconcile the lengths of the lunar month with the solar year.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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The Metonic cycle was later used in both, and added some regularity.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The Metonic cycle was later used in both, and added some regularity.
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By 589 BCE, the Chinese had it down to a cyclical correction, the Metonic cycle, one the Greeks and Babylonians would use a century later.
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