This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...of twenty-nine days, twelve hours, and forty-four minutes, that make in all 354 days, eight hours, and forty-eight minutes. Both of these years are called Astronomical, to distinguish them from that in common use, which is termed Civil or Political. Though all nations may not agree with one another in the manner of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...of twenty-nine days, twelve hours, and forty-four minutes, that make in all 354 days, eight hours, and forty-eight minutes. Both of these years are called Astronomical, to distinguish them from that in common use, which is termed Civil or Political. Though all nations may not agree with one another in the manner of determining their years, some regulating them by the motion of the sun, and others by that of the moon, they however generally use the solar year in chronology. It seems, at first, that as the lunar years are shorter than the solar, that inequality should produce some error in chronological calculations. But it is to be observed, that the nations who used lunar years, added a certain number of intercalary days to make them agree with the solar; which makes them correspond with each other, or, at least, if there be any difference, it may be neglected, when the question is only to de; termine the year in which a fact happened. In chronology there are certain times distinguished by some great event, to which all the rest are referred. These are called Epochs, from a Greek" word, which signifies to stop, because we stop there to consider, as from a resting place, vOL. vIII. all that has happened before or after, and by thameans to avoid anachronisms, that is to say, those errors which induce confusion of times. The choice of the events which are to serve as epochs, is arbitrary, and a writer of a history may take such as best suit his plan. When we begin to compute years from one of these points. distinguished by a considerable event, the enumeration and series of such years is called an./Era. There are almost as many aeras as there have been different nations. The principal, and those most in use, are that of the Creation of the World, of the B...
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