"Lunation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of intermittents, which are undisturbed by medicines, return at regular solar periods, and others at lunar ones; which may, probably, be owing to the difference of the periods of those external circumstances of cold, inanition, or lunation, which immediately ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... Sabbath offering, determined by the predominance of Saturn; the offering of the new moon, depending on the motions of the moon; and lastly, the Paschal sacrifice, depending on the combined movements of the sun and moon—made, in fact, during the lunation following the sun's ascending passage of the equator at ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor |
