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Updated: May 28, 2025
They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices and the heliacal rising of particular stars.
By this course she has a sort of summer and winter solstices; and by her influence she contributes to the nourishment and increase of animated beings, and to the ripeness and maturity of all vegetables.
Seldom do men realize how often God heeds their prayers. He is not partial to a few, but listens to everyone who approaches Him trustingly. Sri Yukteswar sponsored four yearly festivals, at the equinoxes and solstices, when his students gathered from far and near. The winter solstice celebration was held in Serampore; the first one I attended left me with a permanent blessing.
Their progress in astronomy was not equal to that found in Central America; nevertheless, they had an accurate measure of the solar year, but, unlike the Central Americans, they divided the year into twelve months, and they used mechanical contrivances successfully to fix the times of the solstices and equinoxes.
Who is not compelled to admit the truth of what I assert by that agreeable, uniform, and continued agreement of things in the universe? Could the earth at one season be adorned with flowers, at another be covered with snow? Or, if such a number of things regulated their own changes, could the approach and retreat of the sun in the summer and winter solstices be so regularly known and calculated?
"It'll be a bore, but it will make you appreciate your return to the companionship of genius." "The Crags" was that palatial establishment up the Hudson where the Reinold Heaths hold court during the solstices between the months at Newport and the brief frenzy of the New York season, and the house party which introduced Stuart Farquaharson to Society with a capital S was typical.
The larger theistic conception is embodied in the annual sacrifices conducted by the emperor, especially at the winter and summer solstices when sacrifices are offered to Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon, the Four Quarters and the mountains and rivers of the empire and to his ancestors, whose worship includes the interests of the whole State.
They found the points of the compass by determining the recurrence of the equinoxes and solstices; but they had no conception of the ecliptic, of that great circle in the heaven formed by the sun's annual course, and of its obliquity when compared with our equator.
Yao, referred to above, gave instructions to his astronomers to determine the positions of the solstices and equinoxes, and they reported the names of the stars in the places occupied by the sun at these seasons, and in 2285 B.C. he gave them further orders.
That old fellow who keeps out of sight and appears only at the equinoxes or solstices, looks to me exactly like an assassin." "Or a bankrupt." "There's very little difference. To destroy a man's fortune is worse than to kill the man himself." "I bet twenty louis, monsieur; there are forty due me." "Faith, monsieur; there are only thirty left on the cloth." "Just see what a mixed company there is!
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