calendrical

Summary: A new year is more than just a calendrical trope.

Everyday life was understood, he argues, as bound up in a larger process of different intersecting temporal narratives--such that the rhythms of economic activity, religious hours, and calendrical calculation all interpenetrated each other.

- "The Aztec Calendar Stone" reflects astronomical observations, calendrical cycles and mythology of the ancient Aztec civilization.

Caption: CALENDARS AND CHARTS Light from these planetary nebulae embarked on its cosmic voyage around the time the Mayans were performing complex calendrical calculations and peoples of the Bronze Age were crafting the first star charts.

This plunges me into a new rhythm beyond the divisions of calendrical time, where praise is of a piece--indeed, the very "unending hymn of praise" of which we speak in the Mass.

Calendrical happenstance this spring planted Earth Day in the same April weekend as Divine Mercy Sun day, an alignment of dates that sprouted inspiration in Catholics worldwide as an occasion to live out Pope Francis' message on mercy toward God's creation and their common home.

Su Song, an astronomer and calendrical scientist, working with Han Gonglian, a mathematician and engineer, began by first studying previously produced astronomical apparatuses.

The reading of the Torah recommences as the calendrical year both ends and begins.

Vea chisels his novel with the glyphs and geometric artistry engraved in the Aztec Sun Stone, insinuating in its calendrical wheels a twinning or symmetrical relation with the brass knobs and wheels in the Antikythera device that calibrate the year, the day, and hour of human suffering and absolution.

And thirdly, once scientific calculations and technologies (telescopes and cameras) became available and common among Muslims, the question became: should the old traditional method, which was good for its time, be replaced by scientific calculations, observations and calendrical systems?