The year of the sun consisteth of three hundred and sixty-five day

The year of the sun consisteth of three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours, wanting eleven minutes; which six hours omitted, will, in time, deprave the compute: and this was the occasion of bissextile, or leap year. – Brown, quoted by Johnson

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