Did you know we owe the date of Easter to astronomers like Galileo?
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the March equinox. But by the 1500s, the Julian calendar was out of sync with the solar year, making it hard to calculate the right date. Enter the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 (when Galileo was just a teenager). The Catholic Church, keen […]
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