 | Pliny (the Elder) - 1855 - 542 Seiten
...^Ethiopians, which ia 5000 stadia4 from Syene, there are no shadows at two periods of the year, viz. when the sun is in the 18th degree of Taurus and in the 14th of Leo6. The Oretes, a people of India, have a mountain named Maleus6, near which the shadows in sum6th... | |
 | Martin Isler - 2001 - 384 Seiten
...its very bottom. On an island in Meroe, Sudan, shadows would disappear twice a year when the sun was in the 18th degree of Taurus and in the 14th of Leo (time of the summer solstice). A nearby mountain named Maleus is reported as casting its shadows southward... | |
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... elephant hunts, the same thing occurs 45 days before and 45 days after midsummer, and during that period of 90 days the shadows are thrown southward. Again in Meroe — this is an inhabited island in the river Nile 5000 stades from Syene, and is the... 