Sosigenes, the library.- What are you saying?
Sosigenes. You must think it odd that I propose
Most learned Sosigenes, forgive me… but this is Tarsus, not Alexandria.
Sosigenes. You must think it odd that I propose
an invitation to Queen Cleopatra.
It was Sosigenes who proposed the idea of leap years and leap days.
Sosigenes felt the logical solution was to simply
add a day to February, the shortest of the Roman months, every fourth year.
Sosigenes informed Caesar that the actual length of the solar
year is 365 days and six hours, as the Egyptian priests had known.
It also did not help that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar
year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days.
With the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria,
Julius Caesar helped develop a new calendar in 46 BCE, based on the Roman's calendar.
The reason for the latter was that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar
year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days.
With the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria,
Julius Caesar started a new calendar on January 1, 45 B.C.- a calendar that came closer to the solar year than any of its predecessors and became known as the“Julian Calendar”.
So, with the help of Sosigenes, a renowned astronomer from Alexandria,
Julius Caesar started a new calendar on January 1, 45 B.C.- a calendar that came closer to the solar year than any of its predecessors and became known as the“Julian Calendar”.