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Subject: VMs: China Moon
From: "Dana Scott" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:53:28 -0700
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It was news to me to learn that the Jesuits had a hand in "modernizing" the Chinese calendar.

"Johann Adam Schall von Bell"

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13520a.htm

"The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar"

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.shtml

Happy Holidays,

Dana Scott

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