celestial fixing
41Revised Julian calendar — The Revised Julian calendar, also known as the Rectified Julian calendar, or, less formally, New calendar, is a calendar, originated in 1923, which effectively discontinued the 340 years of divergence between the naming of dates sanctioned by… …
42Aryabhata — For other uses, see Aryabhata (disambiguation). Āryabhaṭa Statue of Aryabhata on the grounds of IUCAA, Pune. As there is no known information regarding his appearance, any image of Aryabhata originates from an artist s conception. Born 476 …
43Bulguksa — Infobox Korean name hangul=불국사 hanja=佛國寺 rr=Bulguksa mr=PulguksaInfobox World Heritage Site WHS = Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple State Party = flagicon|South Korea Republic of Korea Type = Cultural Criteria = i, iv ID = 736 Region = Asia… …
44Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) geography and technology — Land of the Lost was a 1974 1976 TV series presenting the adventures of the Marshall family (including Will and Holly and their father Rick, later replaced by their uncle Jack). The Marshalls become trapped in a pocket universe populated by… …
45Zhang Sixun — (simplified Chinese: 张思训; traditional Chinese: 張思訓; pinyin: Zhāng Sīxùn; Wade–Giles: Chang Ssu hsün, fl. 10th century) was a Chinese astronomer and military engineer from Bazhong, Sichuan during the early Song Dynasty (960 1279 AD).[1] He is… …
46Aryabhatiya — Āryabhatīya , an astronomical treatise, is the magnum opus and only extant work of the 5th century Indian mathematician, Aryabhata. Structure and styleThe text is written in Sanskrit and structured into four section, overall covering 121 verses… …
47St. Paul — St. Paul † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Paul I. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS A. Apocryphal Acts of St. Paul Professor Schmidt has published a photographic copy, a transcription, a German translation, and a commentary of a Coptic… …
48sandwich fix — A fixing method that dispenses with the transfer of position lines, and so facilitates plotting, is a sandwich fix. The observed altitude of a body varies linearly with time, except near or during meridian passage time. Hence, if two sights are… …
49Gunner's quadrant — Quadrant Quad rant, n. [L. quadrans, antis, a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See {Four}, and cf. {Cadrans}.] 1. The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The… …
50Gunter's quadrant — Quadrant Quad rant, n. [L. quadrans, antis, a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See {Four}, and cf. {Cadrans}.] 1. The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The… …
