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tation of the world on it's axis when
completed by the return of a point on
the earth's surface to the same posi-
ton in an observation on the sun and
the same fixed star, 30 called, makes
one day; seven days make one week;
! four weeks one month, and thirteen
months or 1854 days one year: while
of a lunar year, seven and three
seventies solar days make one week;
four weeks one month; twelve weeks
or eighty-nine and one-seventh days
one short season; twelve and one half
weeks or ninety-two and six-sevenths
days one long season, and seven
months or POS days one year.
''In the seventh year shall be sab
bath of rest unto the land. And thou
shalt number seven sabbaths of years
unto thee. And ye shall hailow the
fiftieth year: it shall be a jubilee I'M
to you. '-Leviticus XIV, A, s, 10.
Four jubilee years 200-make one
creation minute; thirteen creation
minutes 2600-one time, twelve times
-31200 one creation hour; twelve
creation hours-3744OO I
-one creation day, and SO
seven creation days 200
2620sO0-one revolution 600
of the solar system 3 II 200
around the north star. 3744O
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sAnd he shall think to change times
and laws: and they shall be given in
to his hand until time and times
and the dividing Of time. Daniel
VII, %.
Caesar decreed that every fourth
year should have 1855 days, the other
years having each 1885, When the
Julian year was introduced the equi-
nox fell on the 25th of March. At the
time ofthe Council of Nice which was
held in gas it fell on the 21st; and when
the reformation of the calendar was
made in 1882, it had refrigerated to
the 18th.
In order to restore the equinox to
it's proper place Pope Gregory XIII
directed ten days suppressed in the
calendar: and ordered the intercala-
ton to be omitted on all century
years excepting those which are null
tiples of 400: thus 1900 was leap
year, but 100, 1900 and 1900 are COM
mon years. Soon after the reforma-
ton of the calendar by Julius Caesar
the Greeks adopted, like other Ro-
man provincials, the Julian intercala-
ton. At this time the first of Thoth
had reached the 18th of August. In the
year 1876 of our era, the first of Thoth in
the ancient Egyptian year correspondent
with the 10th Of July, between which
and the 29th Of August are forty days.
The adoption of the Julian year must
!, therefore have taken place about 100
years before the year 1856 of our era
(the difference between the Egyptian
and Julian year being one day in four
years. that is to say about the year
25 B. G. Encyclopedias Britannica.
| The Julian year had advanced the
25th of March SO days (27 plus $3.50
divided by a, to the position of June
2lst or one day short of the solstice at
the time of the Council of Nice; and
3S days more than revolution of the
seasons in 1882 (26 plus 1892 equals
1456 plus 1922, and 1872 divided by 4
equals So. Pope Gregory XIII reck-
oned October IS, 1882. in the position
of the 9Th, eliminated the 18th month
the next following, distributing it's
% days among the other months, and
inserted 385th day. In this manner
October was moved forward 10 and
% days, as well as backward one, and
nine were inserted to move inadvapce
of all Julian intercalations, while
SO years % multiplied by AZ were added
technically, to the computation but
nothing to the actual time of the
Christian era.
Forty-four years less than one and
quarter revolution of the seasons
was the result of the Julian year in
a. d. 1862 (1456 plus 1884 minus AZ
equals "a plus 1852, England reckoned
September ID, in the position of the
3rd IA divided by AZ, adopted the
year of twelve months with a 365th
day. reckoned the equinox in the pos
ition of the solstice, and adopted
computation of time in direction
along the ecliptic opposite to the mo-
ton of the world.
"A month in law is lunar one of
% days. Blackstone.
"a general map Of the heavens may
be constructed: great circles drawn
on it from pole to pole. corresponding
to terrestrial meridians, they can no
longer be regarded AZ celestial mari