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wasn’t by myeeK, for X read this remarkable explanation the ether day. ’Tie so scholarly, I -would feel guilty were I to fail to paea it 'on, to the eagerlyawaiting world-—in case someone missed seeing it before.
“Gaiiis Julius Caeeer didn’t d<o so much about the calendar as you might imagine. The real credit should go to Sosigenes of Alexandria, a Greet astronomer and mathematician, who -was called in for the brainwork, or what passed for brainwork in those days. Sosigenes had achieved fame by writing a treatise on revolving spheres—without, it must be confessed, knowing a great deal about revolving spheres. Anyway, Caesar grabbed him to ghost his calendar.
“Sosigenes was faced by the problem of finding the exact number of days in what is called the tropical year, which is roughly the interval of time between two dates when the sun, in its apparent motion aTound the ecliptic circle (an imaginary line), attains its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator (another dar come out straight was no rea
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