Astrological sign of Cancer and so on. So the Chinese 12-year calendar is a solar-lunar-jovian calendar. The following table shows the twelve signs and their attributes. In Chinese astrology, the zodiac of twelve animal sign represents twelve different types of personality. The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat, and there are many stories about the Origins of the Chinese Zodiac which explain why this is so. When the twelve zodiac signs are part of the 60-year calendar in combination with the four elements, they are traditionally called the twelve Earthly Branches. The Chinese zodiac follows the lunisolar Chinese calendar
Across the Zodiac some remote place on their planet.) The book's narrator names his spacecraft the "Astronaut". The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction. The same title was used for a later, similar book—"Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure" (1896) by Edwin Pallander (1869–1952) (the pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly). Pallander copied some elements of Greg's plot; in his book, gravity is negated by a gyroscope. Across the Zodiac Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, who