Latin: Z

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

• 22.2… solem fit mensis, dum sol unum quodque in zodiaco orbe signum percurrit; lunaris est autem …zodiac

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

• 14.6… sexaginta quinque dies, quibus sol lustrat zodiacum, efficerent, et ne quadrans deesset, statuit, …the zodiac

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

• 24… quippè Sole orituro manè, integrum ferè Zodiaci signum postridiè plus apparet, quàm pridie. Et …of the zodiac

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

• 21… nostri orbem terræ dividunt in quinque Zonas, propter Phœnomena Cœlestia: Sic Levania ex …zones