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    Almanac (redirect from Parapegma)
    connecting to some event apparently spread. The Greek almanac, known as parapegma, has existed in the form of an inscribed stone on which the days of the...
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    ecliptic for specific stars. The parapegma above the dials reads (square brackets indicate inferred text): The parapegma beneath the dials reads: At least...
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    another work, the Phaseis (Risings of the Fixed Stars), Ptolemy gave a parapegma, a star calendar or almanac, based on the appearances and disappearances...
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    multiplicity, crowd, assembly. Similarly, the Ancient Arabs begin their old parapegma type calendar, that of the anwā, with M45 under the name of الثريّا al-Ṯurayyā...
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    theory of homocentric spheres. He also contributed to the calendar and the parapegma literature. Eudoxus' model of planetary motion survives as summarized...
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    primus, Antwerp; (1629) De diluvio liber secundus (incomplete); (1630) Parapegma ou Kalendrier pour l’an de Iesus Christ MDCXXXI; (1636) In id Psalmorum...
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  • constellation. However, Ptolemy does attribute several seasonal indications (parapegma) to Conon. Conon was a friend of the mathematician Archimedes whom he...
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  • extended by astronomical research to the creation of star calendars known as parapegmas. They were stone or wooden tablets listing a sequence of astronomical...
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    be ploughed between the Kalends (1st) and the Ides (13th). The Aëtius parapegma is an almanac that appears as a chapter in the 6th-century Tetrabiblos...
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    Stella; Efstathiou, Kyriakos (May 2013). "The Astronomical Events of the Parapegma of the Antikythera Mechanism". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 44...
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  • There is also a later Byzantine epitome, or summary, of his work. A parapegma or calendar of star risings and settings and weather changes is also extant...
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