Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1923
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1923natur.111..289b&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 111, Issue 2783, pp. 289-290 (1923).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
DURING the 16th century Pope Gregory XIII. effected a very necessary rectification of the Julian Calendar, which was not, however, legally adopted in England till 1752. The effect of the correction was to bring forward the dates of the solstices from about the tenth to the twenty-first of June and December; but the climatic significance of this astronomical dislocation in the calendar was not serious, and the calendar months retained the same distinctive seasonal characters as heretofore. As, therefore, the present calendar is the same in essentials as that instituted by Julius and Augustus Cæsar some 2000 years ago, it must have come as a surprise, possibly a shock, to many readers of NATURE (December 2, p. 747) to learn that we may shortly be asked to suffer all the inconvenience and confusion of a catastrophic alteration in the calendar on grounds which seem altogether trivial. In the first place, the calendar months now in use have by long association become enshrined in literature as the very impersonation of definite stages in the seasonal progression and retrogression of natural phenomena, and it would be sheer vandalism to break this association, and renounce our literary heritage, without far graver practical cause than can possibly be shown.
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