METO

, or Meton, the son of Pausanias, a famous mathematician of Athens, who flourished 432 years before Christ. In the first year of the 87th Olympiad, he observed the solstice at Athens: and published his Anneadecatoride, that is, his Cycle of 19 Years; by which he endeavoured to adjust the course of the sun to that of the moon, and to make the solar and lunar years begin at the same point of time. See Cycle.

Metonic Cycle, called also the Golden Number, and Lunar Cycle, or Cycle of the Moon, that which was invented by Meton the Athenian; being a period of 19 years. See Cycle.