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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

gf     | 1776  |   "    4 |    7    |    9   |   10
       e     | 1777  | March 24 |   30    |   20   |   11
       d     | 1778  | April 12 |   19    |    1   |   12
       c     | 1779  |   "    1 |    4    |   12   |   13
      ba     | 1780  | March 21 |   26    |   23   |   14
       g     | 1781  | April  9 |   15    |    4   |   15
       f     | 1782  | March 29 |   31    |   15   |   16
       e     | 1783  | April 17 |   20    |   26   |   17
      dc     | 1784  |   "    6 |   11    |    7   |   18
       b     | 1785  | March 26 |   27    |   18   |   19
  ----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+----------

the above tables, that, though the intercalary day was suppressed in the
year 1800, no change is made in the date of the paschal moon. The reason
is, the lunar equation also occurred; while the former correction would
cause the paschal moon to fall one day later, that is on the 14th day of
April, the latter would make it fall one day earlier, that is on the 12th;
so they compensate each other, and there is no correction to be made until
the year 1900, when the solar equation

  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
  _Dominical_|_Year._| _Paschal_|_Easter._|_Epact._|_Golden_
  _Letter._  |       | _Full_   |         |        |_Number._
             |       | _Moon._  |         |        |
  -----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+---------
       a     | 1786  | April 13 |   16    |    0   |    1
       g     | 1787  |   "    2 |    8    |   11   |    2
      fe     | 1788  | March 22 |   23    |   22   |    3
       d     | 1789  | April 10 |   12    |    3   |    4
       c     | 1790  | March 30 |    4    |   14   |    5
       b     | 1791  | April 18 |   24    |   25   |    6
      ag     | 1792  |   "    7 |    8    |    6   |    7
       f     | 1793  | March 27 |   31    |   17   |    8
       e     | 1794  | April 15 |   20    |   28   |    9
       d     | 1795  |   "    4 |    5    |    9   |   10
      cb     | 1796  | March 24 |   27    |   20   |   11
       a     | 1797  | April 12 |   16    |    1   |   12
       g     | 1798  |   "    1 |    8    |   12   |   13
       f     | 1799  | March 21 |   24    |   23   |   14
       e     | 1800  | April  9 |   13    |    4   |   15
       d     | 1801  | March 29 |    5    |   15   |   16
       c     | 1802  | April 17 |   18    |   26   |   17
       b     | 1803  |   "    6 |   10    |    7   |   18
      ag     | 1804  | March 26 |    1    |   18   |   19
       f     | 1805  | April 13 |   14    |    0   |    1
       e     | 1806  |   "    2 |    6    |   11   |    2
       d     | 1807  | March 22 |   29    |   22   |    3
      cb     | 1808  | April 10 |   17    |    3   |    4
       a     | 1809  | March 30 |    2    |   14   |    5
       g     | 1810  | April 18 |   22    |   25   |    6
       f     | 1811  |   "    7 |   14    |    6   |    7
      ed     | 1812  | March 27 |   29    |   17   |    8

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