Note 82 — CHAP. XIX. The Calculation of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. The geometrical Construction of Solar and Lunar Eclipses. The examination of antient Eclipses.
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Our Saviour was born in a leap-year, and therefore every fourth year both before and after is a leap-year in the Old Stile: but the Tables begin with the year next after that of his birth.