This has made it a thoroughly unscientific calendar in which the months have idiosyncratically varied lengths, of 28, 29, 30, and 31 days, and have lost all relation to the natural cycle of the moon, from which the concept of “month” arose.
The Roman-Christian calendar celebrates that event of the dictator by assigning 31 days to August, named after Augustus Caesar, to bring it on par with July named after Julius Caesar (to honour whom the length of July was increased to 31 days). Thus came the Julian calendar.Īfter about 40 years or so the petty dictator Augustus Caesar corrected this to have a leap year in every four years. But the Romans shamelessly grabbed credit by naming the calendar after Julius Caesar. The Romans couldn’t understand this simple system, they foolishly added a leap year every three years. This calendar system had months of 30 days alternating with months of 31 days and a system of leap year every four years. Since the arithmetically challenged Romans were unable to correlate months with the cycle of Moon, which is a fraction, the Egyptians gave them a simple calendar system, in which months are not related to the cycle of Moon. This shows how much in error the Roman calendar then was. To realign the calendar with the equinoxes, a year of 445 days was needed. In 46 BCE Julius Caesar reformed the Roman Calendar with the help of Egyptians. The Greeks and Romans, who were bad at arithmetic compared to Egyptians, copied the calendar from Egyptians. That calendar was adopted by Christians as their calendar to fix the then-most-important Christian ritual of Easter. Hence, the Roman’s copied the primitive Greek calendar, which did not involve any serious astronomical model, and improved upon it. It is obvious that the Romans with such bad arithmetic did not have a good calendar which is based on an astronomical model. Romans did not have a system for fractions no notation for fractions. Hindus created the numeral of zero, and Arabs later appropriated it as their own. So much so, they couldn’t even perform a slightly complicated Addition what to speak of multiplication and other operations. The mathematical skills of the Romans were so primitive.
The Romans and their mathematically challenged calendar This timeline has its origins in pre-Christian Rome. And every year after year zero is AD, Anno Domini, “in the year of our Lord”. Every year before year zero is BC, before Christ. Christianity created a timeline based on the figurehead of their cult: Jesus Christ. Kim il Sung, the first leader of communist North Korea, who created the Juche timelineĪs ludicrous as their actions have been, people seem to inconveniently forget they gained inspiration from the greatest cult of all: Christianity.
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