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Calippic
Calippic Ca*lip"pic, a. Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer. Calippic period, a period of seventy-six years, proposed by Calippus, as an improvement on the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

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- The Callippic cycle (or Calippic) is a particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month, proposed by Callippus in 330...
- (see Almagest III.1). So he proposed to make a 1-day correction after 4 Calippic cycles, i.e. 304 years = 3,760 lunations = 111,035 days. Error implicit...
- Number XIII (1807, pp.297-430). An Appendix to Vol III... The use of the Calippic period proposed as a po****r method to discover the day of the visible...