On the Universe

with the sun having been placed in the first [degree] in the seventh month, the world was founded, because equality is prior to inequality, and the similar part [is prior] to the dissimilar. Whence it is certain that the Sun has gradually strayed in the observation of the year from the beginning of April or the first month, up to the 25th of March or the twelfth, from whence it has gradually come from the 25th to the 10th day over 1400 years. Wherefore, all things must be replaced in their proper locations. But the Beginning should truly be taken from midnight when the Sun ascends; of the night, however, when it descends. But there are weeks of days, weeks, months, and years in the sacred texts, about which [I speak] elsewhere. Days must also be called first, second, third, etc., with fables and holidays cast out, so that all things may be restored. Furthermore, the corrected year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes, and 24 seconds; thus there has been an error of one day every 106 years, because Caesar’s