Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 a Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. - Softcover
Synopsis
Excerpt: ...year, or year of rest. This result, besides being instructive and commemorative of the moon's menstrual course, is at the same time indicative, as each Sabbatical year rolls past, of the approach of the "finisher of the Seven Sabbaths of years," or year of Jubilee, so designated from its being to the chosen people of God, under the Jewish dispensation, a year of "freedom and redemption," in commemoration of the moon's complete revolution, viz., her return to a certain position at the precise time at which she set out therefrom, an event which takes place but once in fifty years: in other words, if the moon be on the equator, say, on the first day of February, and calculating twenty-nine days to the month, or twelve lunations to the year, a cycle of fifty years, or "seven Sabbaths of years," must elapse ere she will again be in that position on the same day. Hipparchus. Limehouse, March 31. 1851. Arms of Isle of Man.
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