Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

CHAPTER XII.--SOLSTICES AND EQUINOXES. AIDS TO THE

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Observation of the solstices and equinoxes--Observation of the equinoxes by the Scandinavians--Seed-time determined by the observation of the sun--Devices for counting days, etc.