Fact Check - 1. How the Archaic Kosmos Integrated Nature and Society
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Query: 1. How the Archaic Kosmos Integrated Nature and Society
Fact Check
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It seems that the nearest full moon in the year of his calendrical reform fell 10 days after the actual solstice on which the new year “logically” should have been born (so that it would grow from its smallest seed, the year’s shortest and darkest day). Caesar therefore set the date of the New Year, January 1, more than a week later. This left the solstice to fall untimely on December 21—not a very convenient solar date.
Can you help us figure this out: Is the year actually begun 11 days late, not 10 days late? (January 1 is 11 days after December 21, not 10; perhaps it was different in 46 BC?) This also affects other chapters’ mentions of Julius Caesar and the “10 days” in Chapter 2, the Epilogue’s Key Concepts section, and possibly others.
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