The Metonic Cycle

The sea changes Famously a lot, right? Yeah. There's waves on a hour by hour level. There are tides On a day by day level there is the weather and like there's high tide and low tide which change Yep. But no one recommends getting the average measurement these days of 19 years Oh, and there's a reason behind that number 19. Every happens every 19 years. It turns out 19 years roughly squares with something known as the metonic cycle. Have you all heard of that? No So we talked about something similar briefly on on our birthday episode We know that historically people have kept track of time using both the moon orbit and like phases around the earth As well as

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