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The Reckoning of Time

Bede

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The Reckoning of Time — Bede.

Author: Bede

  • 70 chapters
  • 585 PDF pages
  • 188,874 words
  • ≈ 1453 min read
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    Table of Contents

    11. Calculating or speaking with the fingers
    pp. 112–115 · ≈ 12 min    22. Three ways of reckoning time
    pp. 116–116 · ≈ 3 min    33. The smallest intervals of time
    pp. 117–118 · ≈ 7 min    44. The reckoning of duodecimal fractions
    pp. 119–121 · ≈ 10 min    55. The day
    pp. 122–126 · ≈ 19 min    66. The world's first day
    pp. 127–130 · ≈ 15 min    77. Night
    pp. 131–134 · ≈ 14 min    88. The week
    pp. 135–138 · ≈ 15 min    99. The seventy prophetic weeks
    pp. 139–141 · ≈ 10 min    1010. The week of the World-Ages
    pp. 142–143 · ≈ 7 min    1111. The months
    pp. 144–148 · ≈ 19 min    1212. The Roman months
    pp. 149–152 · ≈ 16 min    1313. Kalends, nones and ides
    pp. 153–153 · ≈ 4 min    1414. The Greek months
    pp. 154–155 · ≈ 7 min    1515. The English months
    pp. 156–156 · ≈ 3 min    1616. The signs of the twelve months
    pp. 157–160 · ≈ 15 min    1717. The course of the Moon through the signs
    pp. 161–162 · ≈ 8 min    1818. More on the course of the Moon: for those who are ignorant of the signs
    pp. 163–165 · ≈ 12 min    1919. More on the same subject: for those who do not know how to calculate
    pp. 166–166 · ≈ 3 min    2020. What the age of the Moon is on any given first day of the month
    pp. 167–170 · ≈ 15 min    2121. What day of the week it is on the kalends
    pp. 171–171 · ≈ 4 min    2222. A formula for any Moon or weekday
    pp. 172–173 · ≈ 8 min    2323. For those who do not know how to calculate the age of the Moon
    pp. 174–175 · ≈ 12 min    2424. The number of hours of moonlight
    pp. 176–176 · ≈ 4 min    2525. When and why the Moon appears to be facing upwards, facing downwards, or standing upright
    pp. 177–179 · ≈ 12 min    2626. Why the Moon, though situated beneath the Sun, sometimes appears to be above it
    pp. 180–180 · ≈ 4 min    2727. On the size, or eclipse, of the Sun and Moon
    pp. 181–182 · ≈ 7 min    2828. What the power of the Moon can do
    pp. 183–184 · ≈ 8 min    2929. The harmony of the Moon and the sea
    pp. 185–188 · ≈ 16 min    3030. Equinoxes and solstices
    pp. 189–191 · ≈ 11 min    3131. The varying length of days and the di¡erent position of the shadows
    pp. 192–193 · ≈ 7 min    3232. Why the same days are unequal in length
    pp. 194–195 · ≈ 7 min    3333. In what places the shadows or days are equal
    pp. 196–198 · ≈ 10 min    3434. The five circles of the universe and the passage of the stars under the Earth
    pp. 199–202 · ≈ 13 min    3535. The four seasons, elements and humours
    pp. 203–205 · ≈ 11 min    3636. Natural years
    pp. 206–206 · ≈ 3 min    3737. The different years of the ancients
    pp. 207–207 · ≈ 3 min    3838. The calculation of the leap-year day
    pp. 208–209 · ≈ 7 min    3939. Measuring the leap-year increment
    pp. 210–211 · ≈ 8 min    4040. Why it is intercalated on the sixth kalends of March
    pp. 212–212 · ≈ 3 min    4141. The Moon also has its quarter-day
    pp. 213–215 · ≈ 6 min    4242. The "leap of the Moon"
    pp. 216–217 · ≈ 8 min    4343. Why the Moon sometimes appears older than its computed age
    pp. 218–223 · ≈ 17 min    4444. The nineteen-year cycle
    pp. 224–224 · ≈ 3 min    4545. Embolismic and common years
    pp. 225–226 · ≈ 7 min    4646. The ogdoas and the hendecas
    pp. 227–228 · ≈ 8 min    4747. The years of the Lord's Incarnation
    pp. 229–232 · ≈ 15 min    4848. Indictions
    pp. 233–234 · ≈ 7 min    4951. How certain people err concerning the beginning of the first month
    pp. 235–237 · ≈ 11 min    5052. Formula for finding the number of the lunar epacts
    pp. 238–238 · ≈ 3 min    5153. Solar epacts
    pp. 239–239 · ≈ 4 min    5254. Formula for finding the number of the solar epacts, and when leap year will fall
    pp. 240–241 · ≈ 7 min    5356. The lunar cycle
    pp. 242–243 · ≈ 6 min    5457. Formula based on the lunar cycle for ¢nding the age of the Moon on 1 January
    pp. 244–244 · ≈ 3 min    5558. A formula to find what year of the lunar cycle or of the nineteen-year cycle it is
    pp. 245–246 · ≈ 7 min    5660. A formula for finding it
    pp. 247–247 · ≈ 3 min    5761. Easter Sunday
    pp. 248–249 · ≈ 7 min    5862. The Moon of that day
    pp. 250–251 · ≈ 7 min    5963. The difference between the Pasch and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
    pp. 252–253 · ≈ 7 min    6064. The allegorical interpretation of Easter
    pp. 254–257 · ≈ 14 min    6165. The Great Paschal Cycle
    pp. 258–259 · ≈ 6 min    6266. The Six Ages of this world
    pp. 260–341 · ≈ 219 min    6367. The remainder of the Sixth Age
    pp. 342–342 · ≈ 3 min    6468. Three opinions of the faithful as to when the Lord will come
    pp. 343–343 · ≈ 3 min    6569. The time of Antichrist
    pp. 344–345 · ≈ 7 min    6670. The Day of Judgement
    pp. 346–348 · ≈ 10 min    6771. The Seventh Age, and the Eighth Age of the world to come
    pp. 349–507 · ≈ 488 min    683.1 Letter to Plegwin
    pp. 508–518 · ≈ 37 min    693.2 Letter to Helmwald
    pp. 519–519 · ≈ 2 min    703.3 Letter toWicthed
    pp. 520–585 · ≈ 154 min

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