Time and timekeepers / By Adam Thomson.

  • Thomson, Adam.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Time and timekeepers / By Adam Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one days,) he abstracted one day from February, which was already minus, and added it to August. September, was so called from being the seventh month, when the year commenced in March ; October received its name from being the eighth month ; November signified the ninth ; and December the tenth. Romulus, who is supposed to have made the first Roman Calendar, divided the year into ten months only, consisting of an unequal number of days, and beginning, as we have already stated, with March ; the total number of days was then only 304, but as it was soon discovered that the civil year, as thus constituted, was much shorter than the solar year, he added two months to every year, but these months were not inserted in the Calendar, nor were any names assigned them till the following reign. WEEKS. Derivations of the Names of the Days. The origin of the division of time into weeks is greatly controverted, some suppose that the four intervals between the change in the Phases of the moon suggested it; others, but with little appear- ance of probability, imagine that the use of weeks among Eastern nations was derived from the
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