ABSTRACT
Page 481 its sides, and that it travelleth continually and unceasingly I from east to west. And the earth is situated in the middle of it like an egg. And according to the measure of the distance of heaven from the earth, so is it remote (z: e., distant) from all the sides of the earth. The Circle of the Malwashe (i. e., Signs of the Zodiac), that is to say, the months of the year, embraceth the length of the sphere of heaven obliquely, one half of it being on the south side, in such a position that Nisan and the First Teshri ascend from the east, opposite to the earth continually; and the rest of the winter months go up from the south to the earth, that is to say, the First and the Second T eshri, and the First and the Second Kanon, and Shebat and Adhar; and the summer months ascend to all the earth, ·that is to say, Nisan, and Iyyar, and Khaziran, and Tammuz, and Abh, and ilul. And each one of those months is divided into three parts, and the whole of heaven is divided into three hundred and sixty and five parts, and each part is one day. And one of these parts travelleth, more or less, each day, from west to east, so that the circle performeth its [complete] course of travelling in three hundred and sixty and five days.
