equinoxes
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- characteristic
- equal day and night
- description
- Astronomical events when the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in equal day and night, also not accurately accounted for by Manichaeus but known through secular philosophy.
- relation_to_sun
- crosses celestial equator
- type
- astronomical event
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- referenced_byManichaeus
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- Manichaeus, which in his frenzy he had written most largely on these subjects; but discovered not any account of the solstices, or equinoxes, or the eclipses of the greater lights
- referenced_bySecular Philosophy
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- I had learned in the books of secular philosophy. But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight, but was quite contrary.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:22.987Z
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