Re: Newton's birthday


"alan" <alan.cleaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| I've been trying to get my head round Newton's birthday - usually given
| as 25 December 1642. But under the Gregorian calendar (adopted in 1752)
| would be, according to some websites, 4 January 1643. But didn't the
| 'old Christmas Day' (6th January) move to 25th December? So was he born
| on 4th January 1643 or 6th January 1643.
|
| So to put it simply, according to the Julian calendar when was Newton
| born?!
|
| Yours, confused and dazed - Alan C.
|
25th Dec 1642 JD

Solstice changed it's artificial date to a different artificial date, Newton
was born a few days before solstice.

http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sprecess.htm

All missing leapdays in the Julian Calendar were suddenly added when
the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Remember that the Earth
stood still and the Sun went around it in the Julian calendar.
Copernicus and Galileo was wrong, it took a stupid fucking Pope
to fix it and bump-start the Earth without the Church losing face.
This is what happens when one or two individuals know what
they are talking about and the vast majority of "we knows" shout
them down.




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