EOTVOS. 134 EPAMINONDAS. EOTVOS et'vesh. J6ZSEF, Baron (1813-71). 1894-95 held the dillka.lt post of Minister of itoUnguished Hungarian statesman and author, Public Worship and Education. who has Left a lasting imprint upon both the E OZO'ON (Neo-Lat., from ^iis, eos, dawn + literary and political life of his country. He ^~ ov ^ Zl - l0lu animal). A supposed fossil organ- was born at Buda, studied philosophy and ism f ounQ in the crystalline metamorphie lime- jurisprudence at the university of that city, >tuncs „f the Archaean Laurentian series of the and when barely twenty entered upon an of- i ower g a ; nt Lawrence Valley. Eozoon occurs ficial career as vice-notary at Pressburg, but mos tl v in the form of concentric layers of the soon abandoned it in favor of literary pur- m i ne fal serpentine, constituting concretionary suits He had already attracted some atten- ma sses in the limestone, and approximating in t j un anslation of Goethe's Chi: structure some of the hydroid corals, such as vun I: wo original comedies, Kritiku- Stromatopora. It was originally described by sok (The Critics), and U&zasuUk (The Matri- sir J. W. Dawson, as a gigantic foraminiferan, monially Inclined), and a tragedy, Boszu (Re- and several papers in support of his contentious venge). After an extended tour through Ger- regarding the object were published by him. many France. England. Switzerland, and the other similar objects were afterwards found in Netherlands, he returned to his father's estate rocks of equivalent age in Bavaria. The re- and there devoted himself to writing his searches of Miibius and others have tended to dis- famous novel Karthausi (The Carthusian), p r0V e the organic nature of Eozoon, and it is now which was at once hailed with delight by the generally considered to be nothing more than a public and critics alike (1842). About this mineral concretion or segregation, lime Eotvos began to be prominent in poli- E 'PACT (Gk. Araxrfc, epaktos. added, inter- tic When the Liberal Party became diyid- calated f] . om iwdyelVt epagein, to add, from ...1. in 1844, into Municipalities and Centralists, ^, . + <?y«», aoein, to lead) . A num- he became, as member of the House of Magnates, ^ varyini , for ,..,,.,, veal . ; employed in the ec- one of the most earnest supporters of the latter clesiastical calendar for fixing the dates of the party, and a frequent contributor to Kossuth s ecelesiastic . al llew moons . These dates differ organ, the Parti Hirlap, his stirring articles be- sometimes as much as three daysirom the actual ing later collected in a volume under the title of or ta8tronomical . ne w moons. Reform. Quite in line with his active interesting Briefly stated th(? t for ar te public reforms is the theme of his second ro- defin<>d as fhe numbep rf days e , a ^ at the be . ma nee A falu jegyzoje r (The Village Notary) inning of the vear since the preceding new moon. ,n which he painted the abuses growing out ^ » ^ k R £ therefore ea sy to of the old system of public administration m * f ^ h following ] unar Hungary, based upon county elections, and which enioved no less vo^ue than his earlier i f J , . _ , novel. It has been translated into German by To calculate the epact for any year, it is Erst Mailath, and into English by Otto Wenekstem ™ e . es ! al 7 to , , kn °} v * h « golden number (y). , 1850). It was followed, in 1847-48, by his Ma- This is found by the following rule: Add 1 to the ,n„,r,rs:„„ ir,l!,-ben (Hungary in 1514), an his- date of the year, and divide by 19. The remain- torical romance. der is the golden number. When the remainder Upon the formation of the national Hun- is 0, the golden number is 19. Knowing the garian Ministry, after the revolution of March golden number, the epact can then be taken from 15 1848, Eotvos was appointed Ministei of the following table. For instance, when the Public Instruction, but after the stormy scenes golden number is 13, the epact is 12 for years of the following September resigned his of- from 1700 to 1899, and 11 for the years between Bee and retired to Munich, where he lived 1900 and 2199: for three years, and where his literary labors bore important fruit in (he form of a phil- osophical work open The Influence of the R ,„,„ KS Ideas of tin Vineteenih Century upon stale number and Society. He returned to Hungary in 1851, «a> made vice-president of the Hungarian i in 1855 ami president in 1866. In jj 1861 lie reentered political life, founded in g^™™™ 1865 a political weekly. Politikai Eetilap, and 6 in L867 became once more Minister of Pub- j"""."""." lie Instruction, an office which he filled until 8 Q his death, w.............. EOTVOS, Roland, Baron (1848— ). An Hun- — — cientist and statesman. He obtained his EPAM INON'DAS (Lat.. from Gk. 'Eira//ei- scientific training at the universities of Konigs- „j, v Sa$, or niirafuvui/Sas) (c.418-362 B.C.). berg and Heidelberg, was appointed a lecturer a1 Greek statesman and general. He was bom at Budapest in 1871, and in 1875 professor of exper Thebes, of an influential, though not wealthy. imental physics there. In Is;:! he beea ion familj and as a pupil of the Pythagorean phi nccted with the Hungarian ^cademj of Sciences, losopher Lysis of Tarentum his early life was idenl in 1893. His Bpent in study. When the Theban democracy in*' tion and capil was established, he came forward as one of its buy attraction cribed by him in various strongest supporters. He was a member of the ind made him well known in deputation sent by Thebes to the congress of ntific circh ecame a life member Grecian States held at Sparta in n.c. 371, and lates, and in spoke on thai occasion in defense of the Theban Table of Epacts 1700 1900 to to 1K99 2199 30 29 11 111 22 21 3 2 14 13 25 24 6 5 17 16 28 27 9 8 GOLDEN NUMBER 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 1700 to 1899 20 1 12 23 4 16 26 7 18 1900 to 2199 19 30 11 22 3 14 25 6 17
