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- The Callippic cycle (or Calippic) is a particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month, proposed by Callippus in 330...
- cycle has 19 tropical years and 235 synodic months in 6,940 days. The Callippic cycle synchronizes days per orbit and rotations per orbit within the Metonic...
- inscriptions including one reading "... 76 years ..." which refers to the Callippic cycle. Other inscriptions seem to describe the function of the back dials...
- The (19-year) Metonic cycle is a lunisolar cycle, as is the (76-year) Callippic cycle. An important example of an application of the Metonic cycle in...
- expanded on the work of Meton, proposing what is now called the Callippic cycle. A Callippic cycle runs for 76 years, or four Metonic cycles. Callippus refined...
- calendar Nisg̱a'a calendar Old Eastern Ojibwe calendar List of calendars Callippic cycle – Astronomical cycle lasting 76 years Calendar reform Nasi' – Aspect...
- Astrolabe Dioptra Equatorial ring Gnomon Mural instrument Triquetrum Concepts Callippic cycle Celestial spheres Circle of latitude Counter-Earth Deferent and...
- Hyper exeligmos Equals 12 "Short Callippic Periods" (each a month shorter than a Callipic cycle), or 12 Callippic cycles minus 1 lunar year, so therefore...
- with the unaided eye. Above it, the period of the Metonic cycle and the Callippic cycle are also visible. The saros, a period of 6585.3211 days (15 common...
- either four or five leap years. But a period of four cycles, 76 years (a Callippic cycle), has a length of 76 × 365 + 19 = 27,759 days (if it does not cross...