JULIAN PERIOD

Definition: JULIAN PERIOD

JULIAN PERIOD

1. A chronological period of 7,980 years, combining the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles (28 x 19 x 15 = 7,980), being reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first years of these several cycles would coincide, so that if any year of the period be divided by 28, 19, or 15, the remainder will be the year of the corresponding cycle. The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates, and was so named because composed of Julian years.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: JULIAN PERIOD

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	See Julian day. (references)
Literature	Julian Period is produced by multiplying together the lunar cycle, the solar cycle, and the Roman indiction. The first year of the Christian era corresponded to the year 4713 of the Julian, and therefore to reduce our B.C. dates to the Julian, we must subtract them from 4713, but our A.D. dates we must add to that number. So named from Julius Scaliger, the deviser of it. Julian period. Multiply 28 by 19 and by 15 which will give 7,980, the time when the solar and lunar periods agree. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: JULIAN PERIOD

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