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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

g     | 1703  | March 31 |    1    |   12   |   13
      fe     | 1704  | April 19 |   20    |   23   |   14
       d     | 1705  |   "    8 |   12    |    4   |   15
       c     | 1706  | March 28 |    4    |   15   |   16
       b     | 1707  | April 16 |   17    |   26   |   17
      ag     | 1708  |   "    5 |    8    |    7   |   18
       f     | 1709  | March 25 |   31    |   18   |   19
  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------

correction, that is, till the year 1900, a period of 190 years, when the
intercalation being again suppressed, causes the first paschal moon of the
cycle to fall on the 14th of April, and, of course, all the other moons of
the cycle to fall one day later. The reason the correction is not made the
first year of the century is, the lunar cycle must first be completed, and
that did not occur until 1710. As 100 is not a multiple of 19, the number
of years in the cycle, and, as the corrections

  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
  _Dominical_|_Year._| _Paschal_|_Easter._|_Epact._|_Golden_
  _Letter._  |       | _Full_   |         |        |_Number._
             |       | _Moon._  |         |        |
  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
       e     | 1710  | April 13 |   20    |    0   |    1
       d     | 1711  |   "    2 |    5    |   11   |    2
      cb     | 1712  | March 22 |   27    |   22   |    3
       a     | 1713  | April 10 |   16    |    3   |    4
       g     | 1714  | March 30 |    1    |   14   |    5
       f     | 1715  | April 18 |   21    |   25   |    6
      ed     | 1716  |   "    7 |   12    |    6   |    7
       c     | 1717  | March 27 |   28    |   17   |    8
       b     | 1718  | April 15 |   17    |   28   |    9
       a     | 1719  |   "    4 |    9    |    9   |   10
      gf     | 1720  | March 24 |   31    |   20   |   11
       e     | 1721  | April 12 |   13    |    1   |   12
       d     | 1722  |   "    1 |    5    |   12   |   13
       c     | 1723  | March 21 |   28    |   23   |   14
      ba     | 1724  | April  9 |   16    |    4   |   15
       g     | 1725  | March 29 |    1    |   15   |   16
       f     | 1726  | April 17 |   21    |   26   |   17
       e     | 1727  |   "    6 |   13    |    7   |   18
      dc     | 1728  | March 26 |   28    |   18   |   19
       b     | 1729  | April 13 |   17    |    0   |    1
       a     | 1730  |   "    2 |    9    |   11   |    2
       g     | 1731  | March 22 |   25    |   22   |    3
      fe     | 1732  | April 10 |   13    |    3   |    4
       d     | 1733  | March 30 |    5    |   14   |    5
       c     | 1734  | April 18 |   25    |   25   |    6
       b     | 1735  |   "    7 |   10    |    6   |    7
      ag     | 1736  | March 27 |    1    |   17   |    8
       f     | 1737  | April 15 |   21    |   28   |    9
       e     | 1738  |   "    4 |    6    |    9   |   10

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