Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe by C. Philipp E. Nothaft
English | February 9th, 2018 | ISBN: 0198799551 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 9.56 MB
The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a triumph of early modern scientific culture or an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the Counter-Reformation.