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Biblical calendars
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Year: 1959 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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Computus and its cultural context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200 : proceedings of the 1st international conference on the science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July 2006
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ISBN: 9782503533179 2503533175 9782503538822 Year: 2010 Volume: 5 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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The scientific knowledge that Irish, English, and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. AD 500 to c. AD 1200 was assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy.The first Science of Computus conference in Galway in 2006 highlighted the transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe, the development of astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe and the role of the Irish in the development of computistical mathematics. The proceedings of that conference should, therefore, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas.


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The Easter controversy of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : its manuscripts, texts, and tables : proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Science of Computus, Galway, 18-20 July 2008
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ISBN: 9782503536682 2503536689 9782503539706 Year: 2011 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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2010 saw the publication of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, which took place in Galway, 14–16 July, 2006. That first collection, which had the sub-title Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West,AD 300–1200, brought together papers by ten of the leading scholars in the field, on subjects ranging from the origins of the Annus Domini to the study of computus in Ireland c. 1100. All those who participated in the Conference were unanimous that a second, follow-up event should be organized, and that duly took place (also in Galway), 18–20 July, 2008. The proceedings of that Conference are published in this current volume. The topics covered in the 2nd Galway Conference ranged from the general – but vitally important – vocabulary of computus (i.e., the technical terminology developed by computists to describe what they were doing) to the origins of the different systems used to calculate the date of Easter in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In addition, there was discussion also of the great debates about Easter, epitomized by the famous Synod of Whitby in AD 664, and the role of well-known individuals in the evolution of computistical knowledge (e.g., Anatolius of Laodicea, the African Augustalis, Sulpicius Severus, Victorius of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, Dionysius Exiguus, Willibrord, the ninth-century Irish scholar-exile, Dicuil, as well as the late-tenth century Abbo of Fleury).

Cummian's letter De controversia paschali, together with a related Irish computistical tract De ratione conputandi
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ISBN: 0888440863 9780888440860 Year: 1988 Volume: 86 Publisher: Toronto: Pontifical institute of mediaeval studies,

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