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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.Packer, George Nichols

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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

Name: Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Author: Packer, George Nichols

Packer, George Nichols

Calendar; Jewish calendar

400 to  500 the discrepancy is  1 day
   500 "   600  "       "      "   2  "
   600 "   700  "       "      "   3  "
   700 "   900  "       "      "   4  "
   900 "  1000  "       "      "   5  "
  1000 "  1100  "       "      "   6  "
  1100 "  1300  "       "      "   7  "
  1300 "  1400  "       "      "   8  "
  1400 "  1500  "       "      "   9  "
  1500 "  1700  "       "      "  10  "

Hence the necessity, in reforming the calendar in 1582, of suppressing ten
days. (See table on 59th page.) On what day of the week did January
commence in 450? We have then 450 / 4 = 112+; 450 + 112 = 562; 562 / 7 =
80, remainder 2. Then 3 - 2 = 1; therefore, A being the first letter, is
dominical letter for 450, Old Style, and January commenced on Sunday. For
New Style we have 4 - 2 = 2; therefore, B being the second letter, is
dominical letter for the year 450. Now reading from B to A, the letter for
January, we have B Sunday, C Monday, D Tuesday, etc.

Hence, January commenced on Saturday. Old Style makes Sunday the first
day; New Style makes Saturday the first and Sunday the second. On what day
of the week did January commence in the year 1250? We have then 1250 / 4 =
312+; 1250 + 312 = 1562; 1562 / 7 = 223, remainder 1. Then 3 - 1 = 2;
therefore, B being the second letter, is dominical letter for the year
1250, Old Style. Now, reading from B to A, the letter for January, we have
B Sunday, C Monday, etc. Hence January commenced on Saturday. B is also
dominical letter, New Style; for we take the remainder after dividing by
7, from the same number.

As both Old and New Styles have the same dominical letter, so both make
January to commence on the same day of the week; but Old Style, during
this century, is seven days behind the true time, so that when it is the
first day of January by the Old, it is the eighth by the New.

  Vernal equinox in the time of Numa, about 700 B. C.

  It is here seen by the errors of the Julian Calendar
    the Vernal Equinox is made to occur
    three days earlier every 400 years, so
    that in 1582 it fell on the
    11th instead of the
    21st of March.                                        18

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  11                                        By suppressing 10 d

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      By the Gregorian rule of intercalation the coincidence of
  years.


                                       March 24,             46 B. C.

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