 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 582 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual...author, and on examination it proved perfectly correct. The Hindoos divide the ecliptic into 360 degrees; and, being the reputed inventors of decimal arithmetic,... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840 - 408 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual...our Sundays, and constitute, as it were, perpetual Sundag letters. A native Chinese first remarked this odd fact to the author, and on examination it... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual rotation, without regañí to the moon's changes ; so that the same four out of the twenty-eight invariably fall on our... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1846 - 520 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twentyeight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual...letters. A native Chinese first remarked this odd tact to the author, and on examination it proved perfectly correct. The Hindoos divide the ecliptic... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twentyeight lunar mansions, successively. to each day of the year in a perpetual...author, and on examination it proved perfectly correct. The Hindoos divide the ecliptic into 360 degrees ; and, being the reputed inventors of decimal arith... | |
 | Richard BALL (of Taunton.) - 1857 - 112 pàgines
...exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual...and, on examination, it proved perfectly correct." — Davis's China. E the world of His creative power, and to the Church of His redeeming grace. Though... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 442 pàgines
...the exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twentyeight lunar mansions successively to each day of the year in a perpetual...author, and on examination it proved perfectly correct / The Hindoos divide the ecliptic into 360 degrees -f and, being the reputed inventors of decimal arithmetic,... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1865 - 502 pàgines
...the names of the twenty-eight " lunar mansions" in the calendar to each day of the year successively in a perpetual rotation, without regard to the moon's...four out of the twenty-eight invariably fall on our Sunday, and constitute what to a European has the aspect of a perpetual Sunday litter. The Chinese,... | |
 | Zelia Nuttall - 1901 - 614 pàgines
...the exclusion of the sun and moon, but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions successively to each day of the year in a perpetual...author, and on examination it proved perfectly correct. To the above it may be well to add the following comparison between the Chinese, Tibetan and Indian... | |
 | Zelia Nuttall - 1901 - 618 pàgines
...the exclusion of the sun and moon, but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions successively to each day of the year in a perpetual rotation, without regard lo the moon's changes ; so that the same four out of the twenty-eight invariably fall on our Sundays... | |
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Chinese reckon five planets, to the exclusion of the sun and moon ; but they give the name of one of their twentyeight lunar mansions, successively. to each day of the year in a perpetual rotation, without regard to the moon's changes ; so that the same... 