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
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of
Calendar -- Early works to 1800; Calendar reform -- Early works to 1800; Easter -- Early works to 1800
In order to explain this, it must be observed, that the _Gregorian_
Account or the New Style is eleven Days forwarder than the _Julian_
Account or the Old Style, which we still make use of; that is, the last
Day of any of our Months is the eleventh Day of their next succeeding
Month. If therefore their Ecclesiastical New Moons fell on the same
Days with those of the Church of _England_, the Golden Number 14,
which now stands against the last Day of _February_ in our that is the
_Julian_ Calendar, should, when we should have adopted the _Gregorian_
Calendar, be prefixed to the 11th Day of _March_. But since their
Ecclesiastical New Moons happen 3 Days earlier than our Ecclesiastical
New Moons at present do; so much should be deducted from those 11 Days,
by which the Golden Numbers ought otherwise to be advanced; and the
Golden Number 14 should not be placed against the 11th, but the 8th Day
of _March_: Which being reckoned the first Day of the Moon, if we count
on to the fourteenth Day of the same inclusive, that would be found
to fall on the a 21st Day of _March_; on which Day the _Gregorian_
Paschal Limit or Full Moon will happen when the Golden Number is 14.
And the like Course should be taken with the rest of the 19 Golden
Numbers; which ought to be placed 8 Days forwarder than they now stand,
if they are to point out the New Moon; or 21 Days forwarder than they
are at present, if they are to mark the fourteenth Day of the Moon or
the Full Moon: The latter of which, as has been shewn, would be more
eligible, than to prefix those Numbers to the Days on which the New
Moons happen.
Thus may the Rule and Method now used in the Church of _England_, be
most easily adapted to shew the Time of _Easter_, as it is observed by
the _Gregorians_, till the Year 1900; at which Time, and at the other
proper succeeding Times, if the Golden Numbers in the Calendar shall
either be advanced or set backward a Day, according the foregoing Rules
and Directions for that Purpose, they will continue to shew us the New
or the Full Moons, of the Church of _Rome_ or the _Gregorian_ Calendar
with great Exactness, till the Year 4199: when, as has been already
mentioned, there must be a little Variation made in those Rules and
Directions.
There is however one Exception to those General Rules and Directions,
which will be taken notice of in the next Paragraph.
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