Just in time for leap day
Feb. 28th, 2024 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealDante readalong got to Paradiso 27 and:
-even Dante believed in the adolescent rupture, like, "kids are great, they'll faithfully honor the fasts when they're baby-talking, but when they grow up, they think they're too cool for that religious stuff and will eat whatever, whenever they want."
-Dante and his contemporaries knew about the problems in the Julian calendar that would eventually give rise to the Gregorian calendar (~260 years later). It's kind of amazing how much Western European computational/mathematical/astronomical power went towards calculating Easter. But, like, the Julian calendar was around for 1600 years, even discrepancies of .0075 days add up!
-even Dante believed in the adolescent rupture, like, "kids are great, they'll faithfully honor the fasts when they're baby-talking, but when they grow up, they think they're too cool for that religious stuff and will eat whatever, whenever they want."
-Dante and his contemporaries knew about the problems in the Julian calendar that would eventually give rise to the Gregorian calendar (~260 years later). It's kind of amazing how much Western European computational/mathematical/astronomical power went towards calculating Easter. But, like, the Julian calendar was around for 1600 years, even discrepancies of .0075 days add up!
