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Encyclopedia > Aloysius Lilius

Aloysius Lilius (Luigi Lilio, 1510 – 1576) was a physician from Calabria in Italy (at that time part of the kingdom of Naples). Lilius was one of the principal inventors of the Gregorian Calendar reform, but died before he had his plans accepted. His brother Antonio presented them to the reform committee of Pope Gregory XIII.




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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aloisius Lilius (4175 words)
Aloisius Lilius, principal author of the Gregorian Calendar, was a native of Cirò or Zirò in Calabria.
The statement in Poggendorff's "Handwörterbuch", that Lilius was a physician in Rome and that he died in 1576, is apparently not supported by recent researches.
Lilius considered fractions of centuries unfit for all cyclic or non- astronomical reckoning and used centurial corrections for both solar and lunar motions.
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