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History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

Note 12 — Chapter I · Earliest Stages of Astronomy.

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. . . . . . . αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν δὴ Πληϊάδες Ὑάδες τε τὸ τε σθένος Ὠρίωνος Δύνωσιν. Ib. 612.

These methods were employed to a late period, because the Greek months, being lunar, did not correspond to the seasons. Tables of such motions were called παραπήγματα.—Ideler, Hist. Untersuchungen, p. 209.

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