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Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of EuropeMacclesfield, George Parker, Earl of

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Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe

Name: Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe
Author: Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of

Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of

Calendar -- Early works to 1800; Calendar reform -- Early works to 1800; Easter -- Early works to 1800

If therefore this Nation should ever judge it proper to correct the
Civil Year, and to make it conformable to that of the _Gregorians_, it
would surely be adviseable to correct the Time of the Celebration of
the Feast of _Easter_ likewise, and to bring it to the same Day upon
which it is kept and solemnized by the Inhabitants of the greatest Part
of _Europe_, that is, by those who follow the _Gregorian_ Account. For
tho' I am aware, that their Method of finding the Time of _Easter_ is
not quite exact, but is liable to some Errors; yet I apprehend, that
all other practicable Methods of doing it would be so too: And if they
were more free from Error, they would probably be more intricate,
and harder to be understood by Numbers of People, than the Method of
determining that Feast either by a Cycle of Epacts, as is practiced by
the _Gregorians_, or by that of 19 Years or the Golden Numbers, in the
manner proposed in the following Part of this Paper: And it is of no
small Importance, that a Matter of so general a Concern, as the Method
of finding _Easter_ is, should be within the Reach of the Generality of
Mankind, at least as far as the Nature of the thing will admit.

For which Reason, in case the Legislature of this Country should before
the Year 1900, think fit to make our Civil Year correspond with that
of the _Gregorians_, and also to celebrate all the future Feasts of
_Easter_ upon the same Days upon which they celebrate them; this last
Particular might be easily effected, without altering the Rule of the
Church of _England_ for the finding of that Feast: And this only by
advancing the Golden Numbers, prefixed to certain Days in the Calendar,
8 Days forwarder for the New Moons, or 21 Days forwarder for the
fourteenth Days or Full Moons, than they now stand in our Calendar.

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Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe

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