The Reckoning of Time
Bede
Church History
Chapters 70
- 1. Calculating or speaking with the fingers ≈ 12 min
- 2. Three ways of reckoning time ≈ 3 min
- 3. The smallest intervals of time ≈ 7 min
- 4. The reckoning of duodecimal fractions ≈ 10 min
- 5. The day ≈ 19 min
- 6. The world's first day ≈ 15 min
- 7. Night ≈ 14 min
- 8. The week ≈ 15 min
- 9. The seventy prophetic weeks ≈ 10 min
- 10. The week of the World-Ages ≈ 7 min
- 11. The months ≈ 19 min
- 12. The Roman months ≈ 16 min
- 13. Kalends, nones and ides ≈ 4 min
- 14. The Greek months ≈ 7 min
- 15. The English months ≈ 3 min
- 16. The signs of the twelve months ≈ 15 min
- 17. The course of the Moon through the signs ≈ 8 min
- 18. More on the course of the Moon: for those who are ignorant of the signs ≈ 12 min
- 19. More on the same subject: for those who do not know how to calculate ≈ 3 min
- 20. What the age of the Moon is on any given first day of the month ≈ 15 min
- 21. What day of the week it is on the kalends ≈ 4 min
- 22. A formula for any Moon or weekday ≈ 8 min
- 23. For those who do not know how to calculate the age of the Moon ≈ 12 min
- 24. The number of hours of moonlight ≈ 4 min
- 25. When and why the Moon appears to be facing upwards, facing downwards, or standing upright ≈ 12 min
- 26. Why the Moon, though situated beneath the Sun, sometimes appears to be above it ≈ 4 min
- 27. On the size, or eclipse, of the Sun and Moon ≈ 7 min
- 28. What the power of the Moon can do ≈ 8 min
- 29. The harmony of the Moon and the sea ≈ 16 min
- 30. Equinoxes and solstices ≈ 11 min
- 31. The varying length of days and the di¡erent position of the shadows ≈ 7 min
- 32. Why the same days are unequal in length ≈ 7 min
- 33. In what places the shadows or days are equal ≈ 10 min
- 34. The five circles of the universe and the passage of the stars under the Earth ≈ 13 min
- 35. The four seasons, elements and humours ≈ 11 min
- 36. Natural years ≈ 3 min
- 37. The different years of the ancients ≈ 3 min
- 38. The calculation of the leap-year day ≈ 7 min
- 39. Measuring the leap-year increment ≈ 8 min
- 40. Why it is intercalated on the sixth kalends of March ≈ 3 min
- 41. The Moon also has its quarter-day ≈ 6 min
- 42. The "leap of the Moon" ≈ 8 min
- 43. Why the Moon sometimes appears older than its computed age ≈ 17 min
- 44. The nineteen-year cycle ≈ 3 min
- 45. Embolismic and common years ≈ 7 min
- 46. The ogdoas and the hendecas ≈ 8 min
- 47. The years of the Lord's Incarnation ≈ 15 min
- 48. Indictions ≈ 7 min
- 51. How certain people err concerning the beginning of the first month ≈ 11 min
- 52. Formula for finding the number of the lunar epacts ≈ 3 min
- 53. Solar epacts ≈ 4 min
- 54. Formula for finding the number of the solar epacts, and when leap year will fall ≈ 7 min
- 56. The lunar cycle ≈ 6 min
- 57. Formula based on the lunar cycle for ¢nding the age of the Moon on 1 January ≈ 3 min
- 58. A formula to find what year of the lunar cycle or of the nineteen-year cycle it is ≈ 7 min
- 60. A formula for finding it ≈ 3 min
- 61. Easter Sunday ≈ 7 min
- 62. The Moon of that day ≈ 7 min
- 63. The difference between the Pasch and the Feast of Unleavened Bread ≈ 7 min
- 64. The allegorical interpretation of Easter ≈ 14 min
- 65. The Great Paschal Cycle ≈ 6 min
- 66. The Six Ages of this world ≈ 219 min
- 67. The remainder of the Sixth Age ≈ 3 min
- 68. Three opinions of the faithful as to when the Lord will come ≈ 3 min
- 69. The time of Antichrist ≈ 7 min
- 70. The Day of Judgement ≈ 10 min
- 71. The Seventh Age, and the Eighth Age of the world to come ≈ 488 min
- 3.1 Letter to Plegwin ≈ 37 min
- 3.2 Letter to Helmwald ≈ 2 min
- 3.3 Letter toWicthed ≈ 154 min
| Author | Bede |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Medieval |
| Categories | Church History · Christian Classics |
| Length | 70 chapters · ≈ 24 h 11 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
