THE “LUNAR SOLAR.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 202, 25 November 1925, Page 5

THE “LUNAR SOLAR.”

FIXED NUMBER OF AIOON PERIODS. A remarkable meteorological discovery has been brought, before the Academy of Science by I\L Bigourdoii, the well-known French astronomer, in the form of two communications, concerning the outcome of researches made by the Abbe Gabriel, a Professor of Mathe matics of Caen. The Abbe’s discovery is described by savants here as one, both astronomically and meteorologically, of the highest importance. " Abbe Gabriel, it is claimed, has proved that there exists a hitherto unknown “lunar solar” cycle of 744 years, com prising a fixed number of moon periods, and including 40 revolutions of the lun ar orbit, and upwards of 67 periods of sunspot variations. This cycle is divided into two periods of 372 years, and into four of 186 years.

Tho most striking feature of the Abbe’s discovery is that he has applied this “luflar solar” cycle to meteoro logy. After studying the great me teorological phenomena as recorded by history, Abbe Gabriel made the aston ishing discovery that there is a double relation between these periods of 744, 372, and .186 years, and the recurrences of excessively cold winters and abnor mally hot summers. Thus the extremely hard winter of 1916-17 had its parallel in 1544, or 373 years before, which also repeated the historically recorded severe winters of .1359 and 988. r i he abnormal winter of February, 1895, repeated that of 1709, IS6 years before, while that of 1879-ISBO occurred IS6 years after that of 1694, which followed after successive intervals of 186 years equally severe winters in 1508 and 1325. 1 __