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Guys I don’t understand the following i.e. Democritus was born c. 460 BC and died c. 370 BC. I have a feeling that I don’t possess the knowledge of how the ancient date/month/year countings. I understand that ‘c.’ stands for ‘circa’, can someone explain this to me please, in a simple term? Also ‘who comes first, second and third out of Plato, Democritus, Empedocles?.
Important: Please give me an article to learn the ‘date/month/year count’.
Regards.
Space Ghost ( talk) 19:22, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
A complete Easter cycle consists of 532 years and begins in a leap year. Dionysius was unaware of the 532 - year repeating period, but he was aware of the cycle of 95 years over which the date of Easter will usually repeat, and he understands that it is the clash with the four - year leap year cycle which invalidates it after a long period. He listed Easter dates for the remaining seven years of the current 95 - year cycle and then named the first year of the new cycle as AD 532 instead of 248 of Diocletian and the Martyrs because he wanted to count from the Incarnation. However, he did not know exactly when the Incarnation was (nobody knows). This is evident from the comments in Argumentum XV of his Liber de paschate sive cyclus paschalis, penned by a later commentator. The date of the Annunciation is given as Sunday, 25 March and the interval to birth as 271 days. The birthdate is given as 25 December, but 271 days from 25 March is 20 December. The writer then says Christ was born on Tuesday, 20 December . The date of Sunday, 25 March implies he considered Christ to have been born in 4 BC, which is the date accepted by the majority of scholars. Dionysius labeled the column of the Easter table in which he introduced the new era "Anni Domini Nostri Jesu Christi". [1] [2]
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I think this could profitably be added to Dionysius Exiguus, but in view of 70.49.171.136’s comment I thought I should run it past you first. 87.81.147.76 ( talk) 09:32, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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Guys I don’t understand the following i.e. Democritus was born c. 460 BC and died c. 370 BC. I have a feeling that I don’t possess the knowledge of how the ancient date/month/year countings. I understand that ‘c.’ stands for ‘circa’, can someone explain this to me please, in a simple term? Also ‘who comes first, second and third out of Plato, Democritus, Empedocles?.
Important: Please give me an article to learn the ‘date/month/year count’.
Regards.
Space Ghost ( talk) 19:22, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
A complete Easter cycle consists of 532 years and begins in a leap year. Dionysius was unaware of the 532 - year repeating period, but he was aware of the cycle of 95 years over which the date of Easter will usually repeat, and he understands that it is the clash with the four - year leap year cycle which invalidates it after a long period. He listed Easter dates for the remaining seven years of the current 95 - year cycle and then named the first year of the new cycle as AD 532 instead of 248 of Diocletian and the Martyrs because he wanted to count from the Incarnation. However, he did not know exactly when the Incarnation was (nobody knows). This is evident from the comments in Argumentum XV of his Liber de paschate sive cyclus paschalis, penned by a later commentator. The date of the Annunciation is given as Sunday, 25 March and the interval to birth as 271 days. The birthdate is given as 25 December, but 271 days from 25 March is 20 December. The writer then says Christ was born on Tuesday, 20 December . The date of Sunday, 25 March implies he considered Christ to have been born in 4 BC, which is the date accepted by the majority of scholars. Dionysius labeled the column of the Easter table in which he introduced the new era "Anni Domini Nostri Jesu Christi". [1] [2]
References
I think this could profitably be added to Dionysius Exiguus, but in view of 70.49.171.136’s comment I thought I should run it past you first. 87.81.147.76 ( talk) 09:32, 25 June 2015 (UTC)