Calendar Medal for 1822 Showing a Bust of Isaac Newton
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1821
label: date made
content: ca 1821
name: label: depicted
content: Newton, Isaac
notes: label: Description
content: This English calendar medal allows one to find the days of the week for months in 1822. One side shows a bust of Isaac Newton, labeled: S. ISAAC NEWTON. At the top it has the label: A CALENDAR 1822. Around the edge are the 1822 dates of Hilary term, Easter term, Trinity term, and Michaelmas term in the British court system, as well as the dates and times of two partial lunar eclipses.
label: Description
content: The reverse side has the numbers from 1 to 31 arranged in a table with seven columns and five rows (the last four squares are empty and marked: BIRMINGHAM). At the top of each column is an abbreviation for the month or months on which Sundays occurred on the dates indicated in that column (e.g. the first column is labeled De and Se, indicating that Sunday occurred on December and September 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 in 1822). This table is labeled: Sunday Figures. Dates of various religious holidays are indicated around the table. Listed around the edge are the dates and times of new moons and full moons during the year.
label: Description
content: The object came to the Smithsonian from the collection of Henry Russell Wray.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Silke Ackermann, “Maths and Memory: Calendar Medals in the British Museum Part I,” <I>The Medal</I>, Autumn, 2004, vol. 45, esp. pp. 12, 40-41.
label: Description
content: David Eugene Smith, <I>The Portrait Medals of Sir Isaac Newton</I>, Ginn, 1912, esp. p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham
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.316919.3
label: catalog number
content: 316919.3
label: accession number
content: 228694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 4.2 cm x 4.2 cm; 3/32 in x 1 21/32 in x 1 21/32 in