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. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ...in this system, except directing, that the christian festival of Easter should be kept on the sunday next following the fourteenth day. When this fourteenth day happened to be on sunday, some churches made no scruple of celebrating their Easter on that day, notwithstanding it's coincidence with the jewish ...
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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. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ...in this system, except directing, that the christian festival of Easter should be kept on the sunday next following the fourteenth day. When this fourteenth day happened to be on sunday, some churches made no scruple of celebrating their Easter on that day, notwithstanding it's coincidence with the jewish Passover: but the council held at Nice in 325 prohibited this practice, and s 4 ordered, ordered, that on such occasions Easter should not be kept till the sunday following. After this general arrangement, nothing more was necessary, but to fix; the day of the equinox, and the age of the Moon with respect to the Sun. The vernal equinox happening on the 21st of march in the year 32,5, the council of Nice believed, or supposed, that the same phenomenon would always occur on the same day, and at the same hour, throughout the course of time. On the other hand it decreed, that the age of the Moon should be regulated by the metpnic cycle; so that all the years which had the same golden number, or which should be equally distant from the beginning of each period of nineteen solar years, must have their new Moons on the same days. The fathers assembled at this council, however, though in other respects very ignorant, having some confused notions of the im- perfection of the metonic cycle, directed the patriarch of Alexandria, in which city the celebrated school of mathematics flourished, to verify the paschal moons by astronomical calculation, and communicate the results to the pontiff at Rome, who should announce the precise day of Easter to all the christian World; but this judicious regulation was neglected, Jn the system of the calendar adopted by tho council of Nice there were two little astronomical errours, the effects of which, accumulating...
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