A snapshot of the Goethean calender dating system, which dates years before (BG) or after (AG) the reaction synthesis, i.e. birth (28 Aug 1749), of human chemistry founder Johann Goethe. |
The following conversion formula facilitates the conversion of “Anno Domini” AD years from 1750 AD to the present to “Anno Goethe” AG years:
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“1642 [the year of Newton’s birth] is the Christmas of the modern age.”— Johann Goethe (c.1810), Publication
“All before Goethe [28 Aug 1749] are ancients, and all who have read him are modern.”— Ralph Emerson (1852), commentary on Margaret Fuller