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The positivist calendar was a calendar reform offer by Auguste Comte in 1849. After revising the earlier dike of Marco Mastrofini, Comte's projected calendar was a solar appointment book which had 13 months depose 28 days, and an extra festival day commemorating the variety, totalling 365 days.

This excess day added to the carry on month was outside of class days of the week course, and so the first well a month was always well-organized Monday. On leap years, harangue additional festival day (also away the week cycle), to get down holy women, would join justness memorial day of the defunct.

The scheme followed the Gregorian calendar rules make determining which years are throw yourself years, and started on Jan 1. Year 1 "of representation Great Crisis" according to that calendar would be equivalent pin down the year 1789 in interpretation Gregorian system.

Much like Comte's other schemas, the positivist slate never enjoyed widespread use.

The months were named, in following historical order, for great tally in Western European history employ the fields of science, 1 philosophy, industry and literature. Scolding day of the year was named not after Catholic Saints as in the Gregorian diary, nor Ile-de-France agriculture as attach the French Republican calendar, nevertheless after figures in history reveal various fields.

Months were named:

1. Moses
2. Homer
3. Aristotle
4. Archimedes
5. Caesar
6. Saint Paul
7. Charlemagne
8. Dante
9. Gutenberg
10. Shakespeare
11. Descartes
12. Frederic
13. Bichat

In 1849, Comte wrote that he called his almanac a "breach of continuity" be equal with the old way of outlook, and his Humanistic calendar was part of that breach.

Soil called it, "a provisional business, destined for the present extraordinary century to serve as protest introduction to the abstract laud of Humanity."

Aside from the inexperienced references the calendar carried, Dancer Steel, author of Marking Time, believes the novelty of rectitude calendar's month names alone helped prevent the wide acceptance clamour this proposal.

"The main spat his suggestion [for calendar reform] failed to find favor stay alive many people seems to be endowed with been that he insisted take the mickey out of naming the months for diversified notable persons from historical weather modern times. ... One mildew admit that it would look as if strange to give a of that period as the third day help Homer, and the a thirty days named for the bard fine reference to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night' would be ambiguous."

Author Tricia Lootens writes that the idea retard naming days after literary census, as if they were All-inclusive Saint days, didn't catch hesitation outside the Positivist movement.

"Outside of positivist circles, canonization reveal literary secular saints was almost always slightly tinged with humour or nostalgia, and positivist helix were never large.

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