[Aztlan] 13 BAKTUN Date

[Sid Hollander]

Excuse me, Must be brain dead.  Surely was Justus Scaliger.  I've been
recently reliving some protest songs of a guy named Pete! ; >)


On 12/15/06, Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at pauahtun.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All--
> > Depends on what the correlation factor is.   Correlating dates between
> > calendars are accomplished by passing through a 'standard' calendar
> > called the Julian Day Number.  This count, Invented by a fellow named
> > Seeger was named in honor of his father (Julius).  This is merely a
> > numbering of the days (much like the Maya LC.  It started on at noon of
> > Jan 1, 4712 BC.  The starting point was selected by coordinating 3 other
> > cycles and projecting backwards to a point in the past prior to any
> > other calendar systems.
> >
>
> "A fellow named Seeger" did not invent the Julian Period, but Joseph
> Justus Scaliger did.  A great deal more information, including some help
> in calculating the JDN, can be found at
>
> http://www.pauahtun.org/Calendar/julian_period.html
>
> Quite a bit more information on the Mayan Calendar can be found at that
> page's parent:
>
> http://www.pauahtun.org/Calendar/
>
> Included are (new, revised) calendar tools.
>
> Metta,
> Ivan
> --
> Ivan Van Laningham
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Sid Hollander
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