Viète's controversy with Clavius over the truly Gregorian calendar

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Jan 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007ahes...61...39b&link_type=abstract

Archive for History of Exact Sciences (ISSN 0003-9519), Vol. 61, No. 1, p. 39 - 66 (2007)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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History Of Astronomy, Calendars

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Viète seriously believed that the true aim of the Gregorian reform has been betrayed and he was furious about some logical inconsistencies which he claimed to have found in Clavius' calendar. Clavius apparently confused solar day and epactal day. This is the very core of Viète's attack against Clavius whom he accused of having introduced a false lunar period. But his own work has some logical inconsistencies too. In order to understand these subtle twists reader and author must work largely through both Clavius' and Viète's methods of Easter reckoning. The fruit of all those efforts might be an insight into Viète's clear mathematical thinking. His calendar, however, was never considered.

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