| Show Egyptians First To Measure Time TillIe 1582 Gregorian Calendar I Universally Adopted Astronomers geologists and scientists scientists sd- sd estimate the age of at the earth at approximately three or four billion billion NIlion bil NI- lion years However the Egyptians were apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap the first to figure out any exact measurement of time They were astronomers besides having the Nile which overflowed pretty regularly regularly regularly reg reg- every days As a result they divided the days Into 12 periods periods pe pe- pe- pe nods of 30 days each and added the I remaining 5 days to the last period or months Historians have accredited accredited the Egyptian calendar as having having haying hav hay ing been established some years before the birth of Christ Now the Babylonians having no Nile to assist them in their calculations fitted up a lunar calendar according according ac ac- ac cording to the observation that a new moon appeared about every 29 days and that the passage of 12 moons brought the star clusters into the same position again accompanied by bya a corresponding season of warmth The resultant lunar calendar soon proved to be about 11 days short of the solar year necessitating the addition of at extra days Julius Caesar detested cy So So he tackled the calendar and called the Alexandrian scientist So- So to his assistance nes explained the differences between be bea tween the solar and the lunar years As a result the Julian Jl ian calendar divided divided di di- vided the year into 12 solar months the the sum of which totaled days with an extra day added every three or four years |
