French Calendar Medal for 1777
date: label: date made
content: ca 1776
notes: label: Description
content: Inscribed on one side of this metal disc is a table listing the dates on which Sundays fall for the year 1777. For example, the first column is labeled Juin (June) and the dates given in it are 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. An inscription above the table reads: ALMANACH (/) Pour l’An 1777. The table is entitled: Dimanches de l”Ann. The dates of various religious festivals are listed around the edge.
label: Description
content: The other side has a table listing for each month, the number of days in it, the date (or dates) of new moon, and the date of full moon. The top lists the birthday of Louis XVI, king of France, and the bottom the birthday of Marie Antoinette, his queen. The right side indicates the solar cycle is 22 and the golden number 11. The left side gives a dominical letter of E and a Roman indiction of 10.
label: Description
content: The object came to the Smithsonian from the collection of Henry Russell Wray.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Compare both medals that are part of MA.316918 to calendar medals with the numbers and 1901,1115.3 (Ackermann number 41) and 1958,1006.3062 (Ackermann number 42) in the British Museum. These are particularly similar to MA.316918.2. Full descriptions of the medals in the British Museum, and much related information, appear in Silke Ackermann, “Maths and Memory: Calendar Medals in the British Museum Part I,” <I>The Medal</I>, Autumn, 2004, vol. 45, esp. pp. 30-31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Calendar
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316918.2
label: catalog number
content: 316918.2
label: accession number
content: 228694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 3.6 cm x 3.6 cm; 3/32 in x 1 13/32 in x 1 13/32 in