Sentences with phrase «predicting lunar eclipses»
They predicted lunar eclipses and computed the length of a tropical year as 365.2420 days.»
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When a lunar eclipse was due, for example, they put a condemned criminal on the throne for the day it occurred, so that the predicted bad fortune would fall on him rather than the king.
New explorations have revealed how the Antikythera mechanism modeled lunar motion and predicted eclipses, among other sophisticated tricks
Many solar eclipses are preceded by a lunar eclipse about two weeks earlier — a coincidence that may have helped ancient astrologers «predict» an eclipse, Close writes.