Identifier: keimalliedfamilv1keim (find matches)
Title: The Keim and allied families in America and Europe
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914. cn
Subjects: Keim family (Johannes Keim, d. 1703)
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : DeB. Randolph Keim
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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would make an unscientific headache to go into details. The earth has had time ever since it swung off in its orbit through space and began to whirl round and round itself every 24 hours and then wind around the sun as the solar centre every 365 and a fraction days. Before the Christian era old Father Time found himself in a fine mess by the introduction of intercalary months and other high-sounding scientific antics until the year fell out of all harmony with the appointed natural periodicity of the seasons. Then Caesar, an original expansionist as well as imperialist, having conquered about everything in sight, tackled time, which he might regulate but could not conquer. With the assistance of an erudite Egyptian of reputation in mathematics, he evolved whatin practically the present method of computation. He started the brand new machinery 45 years before Christ, and it has been running with a few corrections ever since. The system became known as the THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 105
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William Penn Proprietary and Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Born in London 1644; Charter for Pennsylvania 1681; Visited Pennsylvania, 16S2-4and 1699-1701: Died at Rushcombe, England, 1718. 106 THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. Julian Calendar now familiar as the Old Style. Then the ecclesiastical feature supervened in order to get at some rule with respect to Easter and other movable festivals of the church. The vernal equinox, when the days and nights are equal had fallen behind according to the Julian Calendar by the time of the great council of the early Christian church at Nice in Asia Minor, in the 325th year of grace. In Ceasars time it fell on March 25, while at the time of the council they found it should be March 21. It was then declared that Easter should be the first Sunday after the first full moon, which happened next after the twenty-first of March. If the said full moon fell upon a Sunday Easter was to be the Sunday after. But again old Father Time lagged behind, being ten days i

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