Sunday 31 December 2017

Celestial Significance


New Year - a time of no celestial significance. Why, I wonder, did we never think to start the new year on the winter solstice or on the date of earth's perihelion on the 3rd of January?

In the Middle Ages New Year was in March and it was only in the 16th Century that moves were made to move it to January.


Anyway - have a good one.


2 comments:

Roger said...

Happy New Year to you and yours.

Steve Borthwick said...

Have a good one CB try not to nod off too early ;)