system of reckoning
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Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have sixty divisions on the dials of our watches simply because the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived in the second century B.C., accepted the Babylonian system of reckoning time, that system being sexagesimal.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
He quite ignores the modern system of reckoning time, going by the ancient ecclesiastical calendar and the moon.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
Hamburg banco, the system of reckoning of the Hamburg Bank.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
Such a system of reckoning time was known anciently.
From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
