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Their Equinox: Mesopotamian Conceptions of Solstices and Equinoxes
2021This article gathers together evidence from various written sources dating from the early second millennium BC to the late first millennium BC for the way in which the solstices and equinoxes were conceived by scholars in ancient Mesopotamia. I argue that the primary definition of the solstice and equinoxes was through the length of day and night: the ...
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Equinox: portrait of a holistic school
International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2016AbstractThis paper is a qualitative study of Equinox Holistic Alternative School, an elementary school in Toronto in its seventh year. There were a total of 27 people interviewed including teachers, parents, and students. The data indicated that the school is meeting its primary goal of educating the whole child.
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The Physics Teacher, 2009
Paul Hewitt's April Figuring Physics column (pp. 198, 214) asks the reader to determine what accounts for the seven- day difference between the 179 days from the autumnal to vernal equinox and the 186 days from the vernal to autumnal equinox. His answer—Earth moves faster during the shorter period—is the only one of the offered choices that conceivably
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Paul Hewitt's April Figuring Physics column (pp. 198, 214) asks the reader to determine what accounts for the seven- day difference between the 179 days from the autumnal to vernal equinox and the 186 days from the vernal to autumnal equinox. His answer—Earth moves faster during the shorter period—is the only one of the offered choices that conceivably
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The precession of the equinoxes
1995Abstract Lemmas I, II, and III, culminating in Proposition XXXIX ‘to find the precession of the equinoxes’ is one of those sections, interspersed throughout the Principia, in which new ideas are formulated in the context of new problems that are constantly arising.
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