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unusual facts about Positivist calendar


J. Thomas Looney

The Church of Humanity gave special prominence to Shakespeare, naming a month after him in the Positivist calendar, and placing a bust of him in its place of worship.



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Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier

The French positivist Auguste Comte was so impressed by Thilorier's investigations of gases that he devoted the twentieth day of the ninth month of his positivist calendar to British chemist John Dalton -- and to Thilorier.