George Nichols Packer

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George Nichols Packer

Best known for Our Calendar, this 19th-century writer explored how people measure time, tracing the Julian and Gregorian calendars with unusual care and clarity.

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Our Calendar The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

Our Calendar The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

by George Nichols Packer

About the author

George Nichols Packer was a 19th-century American author whose surviving reputation today rests mainly on Our Calendar, a detailed study of calendar history and reform. Public-domain library records confirm the work and show that it examines the Julian calendar, the Gregorian correction, and related questions such as how to determine dates and weekdays across long stretches of history.

Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources I could confirm. A memorial record identifies him as Rev. George Nichols Packer (1819–1899), which suggests he was also known in a religious context, but the strongest clearly verifiable literary information available here is tied to his writing on calendars rather than a broader documented career.

For readers who enjoy older nonfiction, his work offers a window into the scholarly style of the late 1800s: practical, methodical, and deeply interested in how historical systems shape everyday life.