Re: History of Astronomy
- From: Joseph Lazio <jlazio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 07 May 2005 16:27:41 -0400
>>>>> "JV" == John-Charles Verbeek <johncharlesverbeek@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
JV> If one reckons back the 10 days jump of the pope in 1582, one gets
JV> the third century C.E. as the right time of beginning. I always
JV> thought that the cause of not beginning in the first century
JV> B.C.E./the first century C.E. was the state of astronomical
JV> science in the 16th century C.E.
No, the original notion for changing dates to A.D. was due to
the 6th century monk Dionysius Exiguus.
The problem by the time of the 15th and 16th centuries was the
computation of the date of Easter because the length of the year in
the Julian calendar was not exact.
JV> I was told on de.sct.geschichte that a religious factor had played
JV> a part. (Eastern and so on). How was the state of astronomy in
JV> 1582?
For a wonderful summary of astronomical knowledge about this time, try
to find the book _Sun in the Church_.
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