Confusion and Myth in the Calendar Reform
This article grew out of my obsession with Galileo. A story often repeated in books on the history of science - and elsewhere - is that Newton was born in the same year that Galileo died, 1642. But Galileo's tomb in Santa Croce in Florence says that he died in 1641...
The resolution of this discrepancy is down to differences in the years in which various states implemented the Gregorian Calendar Reform. In fact, it is more complicated than that, and one or two surprising facts have emerged from a careful study.
Click on the icon to download the article from the June Genealogists' Magazine, © Peter Maggs and Genealogists' Magazine 2017.
This article grew out of my obsession with Galileo. A story often repeated in books on the history of science - and elsewhere - is that Newton was born in the same year that Galileo died, 1642. But Galileo's tomb in Santa Croce in Florence says that he died in 1641...
The resolution of this discrepancy is down to differences in the years in which various states implemented the Gregorian Calendar Reform. In fact, it is more complicated than that, and one or two surprising facts have emerged from a careful study.
Click on the icon to download the article from the June Genealogists' Magazine, © Peter Maggs and Genealogists' Magazine 2017.
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