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Wiktionary
- n. The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
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“Aelfric provides a very quick overview of Bedan computus and the reckoning of Easter, but his treatment is hardly sufficient to stand on its own.”
“I've read a fair amount of medieval computistical texts, for example, and I wonder whether monks who were immersed in the computus would have seen immediate significance in any use of numbers like 19, 84, or 532 (all key figures in Easter cycles).”
“De Paschâ computus" was written in the year preceding Easter,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“The astronomical work is a sort of computus in four books, in prose and verse, preserved only in a manuscript which formerly belonged to the monastery of Saint-Amand, and is now at Valenciennes.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“For decades scientists and other people have worked in vain for a simplification of the computus, assigning Easter to the first Sunday in April or to the Sunday nearest the 7th of April.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“To secure uniformity in the observance of feasts and fasts, she began, even in the patristic age, to supply a computus, or system of reckoning, by which the relation of the solar and lunar years might be accommodated and the celebration of Easter determined.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“In an ordinance of 789, Charlemagne made provision for the setting-up of schools for boys in which he directed that "in every monastery and cathedral [episcopium]" they were to learn "the psalms and canticles, plain chant, the computus [or regulation of the calendar] and grammar".”
“[582] From a manuscript, Add. Manuscript 27,589, British Museum, 1360 A.D. The work is a computus in which the date 1360 appears, assigned in the”
“Ægidii de Wallecers computus, de cometis, de crepusculis.”
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts
“De pascha computus; see Talley, Origins, pp. 86, 90-91.”
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"Gauss, Karl Friedrich 1777-1855. German mathematician and astronomer known for his contributions to algebra, differential geometry, probability theory, and number theory."
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