solar calendar
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It is based on an ancient horoscope with roots in the solar calendar.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2023
Unquestionably, the festival originated in the font of ancient East Asian culture, China, which has always marked the inauguration of a new year by the lunar rather than the solar calendar.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023
The holiday, which begins Sunday, lasts 15 days and is determined by the lunar calendar rather than the solar calendar used in the Western world.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise may have followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
The Egyptians’ innovation of the solar calendar was a breakthrough, but they made an even more important mark on history: the invention of the art of geometry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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