History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.744
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.744
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¹⁰⁶⁵ Hastings in E R.E. vol XII p. 50 says so, but Prof Neugebauer in E. S A. p 101 says that Babylonian day began in the evening and the first day of the month was made to depend upon a natural phenomenon, namely, the visible crescent of the Moon. Fotheringham in his Explanations to Nautical Almanac 1935 (at p. 769) states that the Babylonians reckoned day from midnight and mentions Pliny as saying that Hipparchus also did the same.