Re: Reclaiming the chronology of Bharatam: Narahari Achar

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:23:30 -0000, "koenraad_elst"
<koenraad.elst@...> wrote:

>Glad to see that some linguists are taking a peep outside their
>libraries and open their eyes to the starry skies. However, a little
>knowledge is a funny thing.
>
>-- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
>>The definition of the winter solstice has nothing to do with
>the calendar. The date on which it falls, of course, does;
>in 1550 (say), the northern hemisphere winter solstice was
>around 11 December, give or take a day, owing to the
>accumulated error in the Julian calendar.<
>
>That's in the Gregorian calendar, of course.

No, the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar dates from
1582 (and in most places was not adopted until later).

>I cannot always go back
>to base one when discussing fairly advanced stuff such as
>precessional chronology. I understand that this is not linguists'
>specialism, but I took it for granted that you would at least know
>about the Gregorian calendar.

Or when it was introduced...


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