On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: > D. Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day >> >> Note that "Julian" in Julian Day Number and Julian Calendar >> refer to two different people named Julius. The Julian Day Number >> Julian is Julius Scaliger, the father of the guy who invented >> the julian day number in 1583. Julian in Julian Calendar refers to >> Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor. >> > > Richard, > > From the wikipedia article you cited: > > Note: although many references say that the Julian in "Julian day" > refers to Scaliger's father, Julius Scaliger, in the introduction to > Book V of his Opus de Emendatione Temporum ("Work on the Emendation of > Time") he states, "Iulianum vocavimus: quia ad annum Iulianum dumtaxat > accomodata est", which translates more or less as "We have called it > Julian merely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This > Julian refers to Julius Caesar, who introduced the Julian calendar > in 46 BC. > > I can't vouch for the veracity of this note, but he he seems to know > what he is talking about and has given what is purported to be a > reference from the original author that backs his claim (as best I can > tell from the quoted Latin and its translation). As always you have to > take everything on wikipedia with a grain of salt, but this looks > authoritative. >
Well, Scaliger's father was apparently named after Julius Caesar (his full name was Julius Caesar Scaliger) so I suppose the roman emperor is the origin of the name either way - it just depends on how many pointers you have to go through to get there.... D. Richard Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
