 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...compass of time is called a periodical month ; but her period from one conjunction to another, that is, from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon, takes up 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds, which space is called a synodical month or a lunation.... | |
 | William Martin - Science - 1832 - 504 pages
...compass of time is called a periodical month; but her period from one conjunction to another, that is from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon, takes up 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 8 seconds, which space is called a synodical month, or a lunation.... | |
 | John Gummere - Astronomy - 1837 - 506 pages
...continues to decrease till the moon again becomes invisible, a day or two before new moon. 10. The interval from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon, is called a Lunation or Lunar Month. Its mean length is 29 d. 12h. 44 m. 3 sec. 11. Any two of the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 389 pages
...month was reckoned from observing the number of days in which the nioon passes through all its .changes from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon. The month was reckoned to consist of thirty days at the time -of the deluge. Eor it appears from the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 392 pages
...mouth was reckoned from observing the number of days in which the moon passes through all its changes from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon. The month was reckoned to consist of thirty days at the time of tho deluge. For it appears from tho... | |
 | Robert Hunter - Bible - 1894 - 862 pages
...Properly speaking the time that the moon takes to make one complete revolution round the earth, say from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon. It is natural to commence from the former, which was the method adopted among the Jews (cf. Numb. x.... | |
 | University of Toronto - Electronic journals - 1895 - 704 pages
...comes to the meridian later and later each day by an average of 50 m. 36 s. of mean solar time, so that from new moon to new moon or from full moon to full moon is very nearly 29 d. 12J hr. Plotting on a celestial globe the moon's apparent path among the stars,... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - Solar system - 1908 - 388 pages
...star back to the same star again. This, however, is not the ordinary or common month, which is counted from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon, and is technically called the synodic month. This eastward motion of the moon in her orbit causes a... | |
 | William Edmond Gates - Codex Peresianus - 1910 - 736 pages
...counting higher than ten or twenty. Among slightly more developed peoples lunations, measured either from new moon to new moon or from full moon to full moon, are used as convenient divisions of the year. But since twelve moons amount to approximately 354 days,... | |
 | Robert William Rogers - Assyria - 1915 - 770 pages
...days, and by the crude device of leap years. At present the mean synodical month, that is, the month from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon, contains 29.53059 days, and the sun year has 365.24220 days. We need bring no railing accusation against... | |
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This means the average time elapsing from new moon to new moon, or from full moon to full moon. 
