 | Methodist Church - 1837 - 504 pages
...Webster tells us that it comes from the Greek, xpovo^oyta, and that it signifies, " the science of time ; the method of measuring, or computing time by regular...them in their proper order according to their dates." All this is accurate enough. But still, the mere English reader is no more instructed from the quotation... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1833 - 374 pages
...Xoyos, discourse or doctrine." It signifies " the science of time; the method of measuring orcomputing time by regular divisions or periods, according to...in their proper order according to their dates."* THE DIVISION OF TIME has been most commonly made in all ages and countries according to the ipparent... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1837 - 512 pages
...tells us that it comes from the Greek, xpovo^a-yia, and that it signifies, " the science of time ; the method of measuring, or computing time by regular...them in their proper order according to their dates." All this is accurate enough. But still, the mere English reader is no more instructed from the quotation... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...time, the series of events, or rules of chronology. CHRONOLOGY, kro-K&l'o-je, n. The science of time; the method of measuring, or computing time by regular...arranging them in their proper order, according to their datée. tron, a measure, 1 n. Any instrument that measures time, or that divides tin. г into equal... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 790 pages
...CBBOMOLOCY, kri-i.ol'o-je, n. The science of time; the method of measuring, or computing time by ragnlar divisions or periods, according to the revolutions...them in their proper order, according to their dates. kro-nom'e-tftr, (Gr. cJuronot, and metron, a measure,! »• Any instrument tbnt measures time, or... | |
 | George Cary Comstock - Astronomy - 1901 - 444 pages
...Chronology. — The Century Dictionary defines chronology as " the science of time " — that is, " the method of measuring or computing time by regular...according to the revolutions of the sun or moon." We have already seen that for the measurement of short intervals of time the day and its subdivisions... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...events in order of time and the ascertaining of the intervals between them. Its basis is necessarily the method of measuring or computing time by regular...divisions or periods, according to the revolutions of the earth or moon. The motions of these bodies produce the natural division of time into years, mouths,... | |
 | Shang wu yin shu guan - 1903 - 1922 pages
...(kro-nol'-o-je) n. The science of time, &$; the method of ascertaining the trne periods or years when past events took place, and arranging them in their proper order according to their dates, $£££, JtlEj a chronology, i£&, ipjJJ. Chronometer, ikro-ncin'-e-tcr) n. Any instrument that measures... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 666 pages
...time, or of computing dates : the method of ascertaining the true periods, or years, when past events took place, and arranging them in their proper order, according to their dates. The following are the leading systems of chronology existing among the several nations of the world... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1921 - 632 pages
...events in order of time and the ascertaining of the intervals between them. Its basis is necessarily the method of measuring or computing time by regular...divisions or periods, according to the revolutions of the earth or moon. The motions of these bodies produce the natural division of time into years, months... | |
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... of ascertaining the true periods or years when past events or transactions took place, and arranging them in their proper order according to their dates. 