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“Easter” being defined as the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the vernal equinox would require, if taken astronomically seriously, not only the determination of the length of the tropical year but also a solution of the highly complex problem of predicting the moments of the full moons.
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To the Memory of Eduard Schwartz (1858–1940)
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Neugebauer, O. (1983). Ethiopic Easter Computus. In: Astronomy and History Selected Essays. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5559-8_43
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