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 IX.--CALENDAR REGULATION. 1. THE INTERCALATION 240

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Incomplete series of months--Uncertainty as to the month-- Difficulties in reckoning months--Empirical intercalation-- The Jews--Correction of the months by the stars--Correction of the Batak year--The pre-Mohammedan intercalation--The Babylonian months and the stars.--The Babylonian intercalation empirical--Correction of the year by the solstices and the stars.