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
Upon these Principles I framed the Table accompanying this Paper,
and shewing, by means of the Golden Numbers, all the _Gregorian_
Paschal Limits or Full Moons, from the Reformation of the Calendar,
_&c._ by Pope _Gregory_ to the Year 4199 inclusive. Which Space of
Time is therein divided into sixteen unequal Portions or Periods; at
the Beginning of each of which, all the Golden Numbers, when once
they shall have been properly placed in the Calendar, must either be
advanced or set back one Day, with respect to the Place where they
stood in the preceding Period, agreeably to the foregoing Rules: Except
those Numbers which shall happen to stand against the 4th and 5th of
_April_ to shew the Paschal New Moons, or against the 17th and 18th of
the same Month to mark out the Paschal Full Moons; both which Numbers
at some Times, and only one of them at others, must keep the same Place
for that, which was allotted to them in the immediately preceding
Period.
In order to determine at what Times, and on what Occasions, this
Exception is to take Place; let it be observed, that, in the Months of
_January_, _March_, _May_, and some others in our present Calendar,
as well as in the Table above mentioned, some of the Golden Numbers
stand double or in Pairs, and follow one the other immediately; whilst
others, on the contrary, generally stand single and by themselves.
Now, when any of those Pairs, or two Numbers which usually accompany
each other, happen, in pursuance of the foregoing Rules, to be prefixed
the one to the 4th and the other to the 5th of _April_ for the New
Moons, or the one to the 17th and the other to the 18th of _April_
for the Paschal Limits or Full Moons: And when any of those Numbers,
which generally stand single, are prefixed, according to the said
Rules, to the 5th of _April_ for the New Moons, or to the 18th for the
Full Moons: In these Cases those Pairs or single Numbers that are so
situated; must not be set forward or advanced at the Beginning of the
next Period, but must keep their Places during another Period, if the
foregoing Rules direct all the Golden Numbers to be advanced a Day;
which must be complied with in respect to all the other Golden Numbers,
except those so situated as above. Instances whereof may be seen in
the Table, under the respective Periods beginning with the Years 1900,
2600, 3100, and 3800.
But if, in Conformity to the foregoing Rules, all the Golden Numbers
are to be set one Day backward; those Pairs or single Numbers, tho'
situated as is above-mentioned, must not keep their Places, but must
move one Day backward like all the other Golden Numbers; as they may be
seen to do in the Periods beginning with the Years 2400 and 3600.
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