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A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. Formatting and special characters are indicated as follows:
Being Part of a LETTER from
The Right Honourable
GEORGE EARL OF MACCLESFIELD
The Common Lunar Year consists of 12 such Months.
But this was a Mistake:
This Difference amounts to a whole Day very nearly in 310.7 Years, the New Moons anticipating, or falling earlier, by 24 Hours in that Space of Time, than they did before: And therefore now in the Year 1750, the New Moons happen above four Days and a half sooner, than the Times pointed out by the Golden Numbers in the Calendar.
In order therefore to preserve a sort of regular Correspondence betwixt the Solar and the Lunar Years, and to make the Golden Numbers, prefixed to the Days of the Month, useful for determining the Times of the New Moons, it would be necessary, when once those Golden Numbers should have been prefixed to the proper Days, to make them anticipate a Day at the End of every 310.7 Years, as the Moons will actually have done; that is to set them back one Day, by prefixing each of them to the Day preceding that, against which they before stood.
But as such a Rule would neither be so easily comprehended or retained in Memory, as if the Alteration was to be made at the End or at the Beginning of complete Centuries
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