to Lecture XL

of

^oieriLL in my Philological Library

lt erary Arts and Sciences.

is ^’^ He Dionysian Period is one that

^ade by multiplying together the Cycles

Sun and Moon , and therefore con-

4f 532 Years, for 28 x 19 — 532,.

Qj ) | er the Completion of this Period, not

■I 1 the New and Fall Moons , return to% r„ .

D;

Bays of the Month, but also the°t the Month return to the sameh.o. the Week; anil therefore the Do-

h;

tys

' a Fs 0 f

Letters and the Moveable Feasts allagain in the fame Order. Hence(f. was called the Great Paschal

t( YE.

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The Julian Period is the.last I

ixf. trieution, and the largest of all, cori-

t}j of 7980 Years, being composed' of

u Cycles of the Sun , Moan, and Indietion %hs ~,o —■- ^

4 X iq x 15 = 7980.

hi

The Be

ts b Tus fYriod was 764 Wars before*hd ^ reation ’ antl is not yet compieated ;Q ^erefore comprehends all other Periods ,and Epochas, and the Times of allj t stable Actions and Histories, It had^■^aruc from its Inventor Julius Scaliger ,0 has eternized himself thereby.

I can’t conclude this Essay without• § before the Pleader the Astronomical

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