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Where would you restart the calendar?

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Where would you restart the calendar?
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 4:21 pm (This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 4:29 pm by jesus_wept.)
(February 25, 2015 at 10:33 am)Chuck Wrote:
(February 25, 2015 at 8:19 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I think I'd like to start it on the year of Galileo's birth, to mark the beginning of mankind realising they.not the centre of the universe and the triumph of science, evidence and reason over superstition.

Shouldn't that be credited to Copernicus? The displacement of earth from the center is commonly called the Copernican revolution, after all.

I did think of Copernicus but it wasn't until Galileo that we had proof that the earth wasn't the centre of the universe, or the solar system at least. So I decided to go with Galileo instead.
(February 25, 2015 at 11:41 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Why would you start the calendar year in the year Galileo/Copernicus was born? Why not the year they made their respective discoveries?

Because it's easier to say and write before or after Galileo (BG or AG) than before or after Galileo proved the solar system was heliocentric (BGPTSSWH).

But I'm not fussy, either will do.
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Where would you restart the calendar?

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Where would you restart the calendar? - by Clueless Morgan - February 24, 2015 at 1:41 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Cato - February 24, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Chad32 - February 24, 2015 at 1:49 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by c172 - February 24, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Exian - February 24, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by SteelCurtain - February 24, 2015 at 2:14 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Cato - February 24, 2015 at 2:24 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by vorlon13 - February 24, 2015 at 2:18 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by TheRealJoeFish - February 24, 2015 at 2:40 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Minimalist - February 24, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Jackalope - February 24, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Chas - February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Chas - February 24, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by SteelCurtain - February 24, 2015 at 8:37 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Chas - February 25, 2015 at 6:02 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by SteelCurtain - February 25, 2015 at 11:55 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Clueless Morgan - February 26, 2015 at 12:09 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Minimalist - February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by LastPoet - February 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by AFTT47 - February 24, 2015 at 8:33 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by IATIA - February 24, 2015 at 9:29 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by dyresand - February 24, 2015 at 9:05 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by The Valkyrie - February 24, 2015 at 9:32 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by dyresand - February 24, 2015 at 9:46 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 24, 2015 at 10:01 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by dyresand - February 24, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by popeyespappy - February 24, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Faith No More - February 25, 2015 at 12:11 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Jenny A - February 25, 2015 at 12:23 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Anomalocaris - February 25, 2015 at 12:42 am
Where would you restart the calendar? - by KUSA - February 25, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Anomalocaris - February 25, 2015 at 12:47 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by robvalue - February 25, 2015 at 3:37 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by pocaracas - February 25, 2015 at 3:54 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by ignoramus - October 21, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Brakeman - February 25, 2015 at 8:07 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by jesus_wept - February 25, 2015 at 8:19 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Anomalocaris - February 25, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Clueless Morgan - February 25, 2015 at 11:41 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Anomalocaris - February 25, 2015 at 12:18 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by jesus_wept - February 25, 2015 at 4:21 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Norman Humann - February 25, 2015 at 10:24 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Brian37 - February 25, 2015 at 10:32 am
Where would you restart the calendar? - by KUSA - February 25, 2015 at 6:24 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by jesus_wept - February 26, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by Fake Messiah - October 21, 2015 at 7:05 am
RE: Where would you restart the calendar? - by ignoramus - October 21, 2015 at 7:18 am

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