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The Revised Julian calendar, or less formally the new calendar and also known as the Milanković calendar, is a calendar proposed in 1923 by the Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković as a more accurate alternative to both Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Milutin Milanković was born in the village of Dalj, a settlement on the banks of the Danube in what was then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Milutin and his twin sister were the oldest of seven children raised in a Serb family. Their father was a merchant, landlord, and a local politician who died when Milutin was eight.
The 131'st anniversary of Milutin Milanković's birth was marked in May 2010 with a series of activities. [8] In 2011 the Center participated in the cross-border cooperation project " From people to people " with participants including the Municipality of Erdut, the City Library of Sombor , the Cultural Center "Laza Kostić" Sombor, and the ...
Through Distant Worlds and Times or Through Distant Worlds and Times: Letters from a Wayfarer in the Universe is a romantic scientific story written by Milutin Milanković, the Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist and climatologist, in the form of letters to an anonymous young woman.
House of Milutin Milanković [1] is a сultural monument in Serbia. It is located in Belgrade , in the municipality of Palilula , at 9 Ljubomira Stojanovića Street. The house was built in 1927 under the then newly formed "Professor's Colony".
Park Milutin Milanković (Serbian: Парк Милутин Миланковић) is a park in Belgrade, a capital of Serbia.It is situated on top of the Vračar hill, in the municipality of Savski Venac and was the former location of the Belgrade Observatory from 1891 to 1929.
Advocating his solution astronomer Milutin Milankovic said that with the proposition of the Serbian delegation (which had previously advocated the newly-introduced state calendar of Greece) the Orthodox Church would have the most precise and most scientific calendar in the Christian world, so it could [page 9] confidently enter any negotiations ...
James D. Hays is a professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. [1] Hays founded and led the CLIMAP project, which collected sea floor sediment data to study surface sea temperatures and paleoclimatological conditions 18,000 years ago.