 | Archibald Patoun - Navigation - 1734 - 568 pages
...the Solar Cycle for any Year of the Cbriftian Mra, and the Dominical Letter belonging to it ; we muft add 9 to the given Year and divide the Sum by 28, then the Quotient will mow how many compleat Cycles has paft fince the firft Year of the Solar Cycle,... | |
 | Benjamin Martin - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1737 - 720 pages
...commenc'd ; therefore in order to find the *c ' Year of the Cycle for any Year of Chrift, proceed thus. Add 9 to the given Year, and divide the Sum by 28 ; the Quotient (hews the Number of Cycles that have revolv'd fince the firft Year of Cbrifti and the Remainder... | |
 | Horatio Gates Spafford - Astronomy - 1809 - 448 pages
...Savior's birth according to the vulgar era, was the 9th of this cycle ; therefore, to find the year of this cycle, add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the quotient shows the number of cycles eLp»ed since his birth, and the remainder is the cycle for the... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1821 - 408 pages
...Letter. To find the Cycle of the Sun for any Year till 19OO, and likewise the Sunday Letter. RULE. Add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder is the year of the solar cycle ; if there be no remainder the solar cycle is 28. Then, in the following Table,... | |
 | Friedrich Spanheim - Church history - 1829 - 756 pages
...commencement of the Christian a?ra, the cycle of the Sun was !). Rule to find the cycle of the Sun : add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28 ; the quotient will be the number of cycles since the Christian aera, and the remainder the current year... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...given year of the Christian era add 9, the date of its commencement before the birth of our Saviour to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder is the solar cycle ; and if there be no remainder, then 28 is the cycle itself. When the year of the cycle... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1848 - 486 pages
...Letter. To find the Cycle of the Sun for any Year till 1900, and likewise the Sunday Letter. RULE. — Add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder is the year of the solar cycle ; if there be no remainder, the solar cycle is 28. Then in the following Table,... | |
 | T. Brooke - 1849 - 92 pages
...Dominical letters will have happened. PROBLEM XXX. Given a year, to find the solar cycle. RULE. — Add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder is the solar cycle ; if there is no remainder, the solar cycle is 28. Having shown two days difference between... | |
 | F. H. Jaquemet - Chronology, Historical - 1857 - 364 pages
...adaptation will not, therefore, take place till after four times seven years. In order to find the solar cycle, add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder will show the year of the solar cycle. If nothing remains, it will be the 28th year of the cycle. The... | |
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Add 9 to the given year, and divide the sum by 28, the remainder is the year of the solar cycle ; if there be no remainder, the solar cycle is 28. 