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Calendar Year (Constellations (Most of the constellations we know of today…
Calendar Year
Constellations
Most of the constellations we know of today have Greek and Roman names, but people mapped the sky before these empires took hold.
The Greeks adopted their system from the Babylonians, whose origins in turn may have stemmed from Sumerian traditions 3,000 years before
People don't know who started the knowledge of constellations. There are only 88 that are known and recorded. Every known object in the sky lies within a constellations
Early Roman Calendar
The Romans borrowed parts of their earliest known calendar from the Greeks. The calendar consisted of 10 months in a year of 304 days. The Romans seem to have ignored the remaining 61 days, which fell in the middle of winter
Romulus supposedly introduced the calendar in 700s B.C.E
The 10 months were named Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December. The last six names were taken from the words for five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten
Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months. A leap day is added to February every four years. The Julian year is, therefore, on average 365.25 days long.
The Julian Calendar was named after Julius Caesar
Facts
Gregorian calendar is our present one named after Pope Gregory
People do not like remembering all of these different numbers
Astrology
Ancient people believed that planetary movements signaled events such as floods, good and bad harvests, or wars with neighboring tribes, so the predictive aspects of astrology soon followed.
Early astrologers believed that the position of the planets rising over the horizon or at the top of the sky at a person’s birth foretold the potential character and destiny of that person.
Astrology
As you have learned, a year and a day are not even numbers. We round the numbers off to 365 days and 24 hours
Science doesn’t like that at all
Scientists like to be exact
Early astrologers believed that the position of the planets rising over the horizon or at the top of the sky at a person’s birth foretold the potential character and destiny of that person.
Pseudo- science
Pseudo-science is a claim, belief or practice which is incorrectly presented as scientific but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status
Astrology is a Pseudo-science
As you have learned, a year and a day are not even numbers. We round the numbers off to 365 days and 24 hours
Science doesn’t like that at all
Scientists like to be exact
Even if we have leap years, the duration of each year is still not exact
Days are off by almost four minutes
The International Fixed Calendar is essentially a perpetual Gregorian calendar, in which the year is divided into 13 months, each of 28 days, with an additional day at the end
people began to observe the sky and how the bodies in it moved in a regular pattern