Choice and Voice in School Calendar Reform

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Shields ◽  
Steven Lynn Oberg
Keyword(s):  
School Calendar ◽  
Calendar Reform

The Harvest of Medieval Calendar Reform

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Gregorian Reform ◽  
Calendar Reform

This chapter offers a bird’s-eye view of the 100 years of debate that followed upon Regiomontanus’s death and culminated in the Gregorian Reform of 1582, focusing in particular on the time of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17) and the work carried out in the 1570s by a commission of experts convened by Pope Gregory XIII, which came to favour an intricate scheme for an astronomically accurate and freely adjustable calendar. Some attention is paid to the extent to which Copernican heliocentric astronomy may have influenced, or was influenced by, the ongoing discussions surrounding the calendar reform. At the same time, the key argument of this chapter is that the breakthrough achieved in the sixteenth century rested to a very large extent on premises, concepts, and insights first formulated during the preceding medieval centuries.

Calendrical Astronomy in the Twelfth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Calendar Reform ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Influential Theory ◽  
Reform Debate

This chapter employs a range of previously untapped sources to paint a detailed picture of how the so-called Renaissance of the Twelfth Century reshaped computistical literature and spawned the first blossoming of a calendar-reform debate in the Latin Christian world. Major points of discussion are the introduction of astronomical tables as instruments for analysing calendrical error, the discovery of the lunar calendars used by Muslims and Jews as potential alternatives to the Church’s own 19-year cycle, and the adoption of a new understanding of the nature of the solar year, in particular the influential theory of the ‘access and recess of the eighth sphere’ and its prediction of a variable tropical year.

scholarly journals Calendar Reform under Peter the Great: Absolutist Prerogatives, Plural Temporalities, and Christian Exceptionalism

Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Andreas Schönle
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Calendar Reform

The calendar reforms of Peter the Great introduced on January 1, 1700 have produced a surprising amount of confusion and misunderstanding. This articles proposes firstly to clarify the aims and outcomes of these reforms, so far as the available sources allow. Secondly, through an examination of the New Year celebrations mandated by Peter's edicts, the article examines the legitimating arguments that have been deployed, including ideas about Russia's relation to western countries, about the position of the Orthodox Church in the polity, and about the prerogatives of the ruler in these matters. As a result of the changing arguments invoked by Peter and his entourage, the reforms introduced a regime of plural temporalities that has affected the course of Russia's development and the elaboration of its identities to this day. The reforms had little to do with heralding a secular, modern society. If initially they represented a failed pragmatic attempt to create a civil calendar aligned with Protestant countries, their justification, once it finally settled, harked back to long-standing theological ideas about the time of the Incarnation.

scholarly journals 1000 Years of Calendar Reform

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Stephen McCluskey
Keyword(s):  
Calendar Reform

scholarly journals The U.S. National Academy and Calendar Reform

Nature ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 149 (3784) ◽  
pp. 523-523
Keyword(s):  
Calendar Reform ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Calendar Reform

Nature ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 171 (4362) ◽  
pp. 1004-1004
Keyword(s):  
Calendar Reform

scholarly journals Surveillance of varicella and herpes zoster in Slovenia, 1996 – 2005

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Socan ◽  
M Blaško
Keyword(s):  
Herpes Zoster ◽  
School Children ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Surveillance Data ◽  
School Calendar ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
Notifiable Diseases ◽  
Case Based

In Slovenia, varicella and herpes zoster infections are case-based mandatorily notifiable diseases. We present surveillance data for a period of ten years (1996 - 2005). Incidences of varicella ranged from 456 to 777 per 100 000 population in all age groups. As many as 75% of varicella cases reported were in pre-school children, with children aged three and four years being most affected. The incidence of varicella increased between October and January and was lowest in August and September; the seasonal pattern matches patterns in the school calendar. Herpes zoster was declared a reportable disease in 1995. In 2005, 1627 cases were notified (81.3/100 000). Female cases outnumbered male. The highest incidence of herpes zoster was noted in elderly individuals over 70 years of age. Complications, such as zoster meningitis and meningoencephalitis, were rarely reported (3.05/1 000 000).

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