Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200
I. Warntjes, D. Ó Cróinín (eds.)
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.
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