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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

c     | 1666  | April 19 |   25    |   23   |   14
       b     | 1667  |   "    8 |   10    |    4   |   15
      ag     | 1668  | March 28 |    1    |   15   |   16
       f     | 1669  | April 16 |   21    |   26   |   17
       e     | 1670  |   "    5 |    6    |    7   |   18
       d     | 1671  | March 25 |   29    |   18   |   19
  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------

completed, then the paschal moons again occur in the same order, on the
same day of the month as they did nineteen years before. Now this cycle is
six times repeated in a period of 114 years, when the intercalary day
being suppressed in 1700, causes the first paschal moon of the cycle to
fall on the 13th of April instead of the 12th, and all the moons of the
cycle to fall one day later than they would had the correction not been
made. The cycle is now repeated ten times without

  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
  _Dominical_|_Year._| _Paschal_|_Easter._|_Epact._|_Golden_
  _Letter._  |       | _Full_   |         |        |_Number._
             |       | _Moon._  |         |        |
  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
      cb     | 1672  | April 12 |   17    |    0   |    1
       a     | 1673  |   "    1 |    2    |   11   |    2
       g     | 1674  | March 21 |   25    |   22   |    3
       f     | 1675  | April  9 |   14    |    3   |    4
      ed     | 1676  | March 29 |    5    |   14   |    5
       c     | 1677  | April 17 |   18    |   25   |    6
       b     | 1678  |   "    6 |   10    |    6   |    7
       a     | 1679  | March 26 |    2    |   17   |    8
      gf     | 1680  | April 24 |   21    |   28   |    9
       e     | 1681  |   "    3 |    6    |    9   |   10
       d     | 1682  | March 23 |   29    |   20   |   11
       c     | 1683  | April 11 |   18    |    1   |   12
      ba     | 1684  | March 31 |    2    |   12   |   13
       g     | 1685  | April 19 |   22    |   23   |   14
       f     | 1686  |   "    8 |   14    |    4   |   15
       e     | 1687  | March 28 |   30    |   15   |   16
      dc     | 1688  | April 16 |   18    |   26   |   17
       b     | 1689  |   "    5 |   10    |    7   |   18
       a     | 1690  | March 25 |   26    |   18   |   19
       g     | 1691  | April 12 |   15    |    0   |    1
      fe     | 1692  |   "    1 |    6    |   11   |    2
       d     | 1693  | March 21 |   22    |   22   |    3
       c     | 1694  | April  9 |   11    |    3   |    4
       b     | 1695  | March 29 |    3    |   14   |    5
      ag     | 1696  | April 17 |   22    |   25   |    6
       f     | 1697  |   "    6 |    7    |    6   |    7
       e     | 1698  | March 26 |   30    |   17   |    8
       d     | 1699  | April 14 |   19    |   28   |    9
       c     | 1700  |   "    3 |    4    |    9   |   10
       b     | 1701  | March 23 |   27    |   20   |   11
       a     | 1702  | April 11 |   16    |    1   |   12

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