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Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times (Translated Texts for Historians, 56),Used
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The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material. He insisted that his reader understand the mathematical and physical basis of time, and though he was dependent on his textual sources, he also included observations of his own. But Bede was also a Christian exegete who thought deeply and earnestly about how salvationhistory connected to natural history and the history of the peoples of the earth. To comprehend his religious mentality, we have to take on board his views on science and vice versa.On the Nature of Things is a survey of cosmology. Starting with Creation and the universe as a whole, Bede reads the cosmos downwards from the heavens, through the atmosphere, to the oceans and rivers of earth. This order (recapitulating the four elements or fire, air, water and earth) was derived from his main source, Isidore of Sevilles On the Nature of Things. However, Bede separated out Isidores chapters on time, and dealt with them in On Times. On Times, like its second, revised and enlarged edition The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione), works upwards from the smallest units of time, through the day and night, the week, month and year, to the worldages. Bedes innovation is to introduce a practical manual of Easter reckoning, or computus, into this survey. Hidden beneath the matteroffact surface of the work is an intense polemic about the correct principles for determining the date of Easter principles which in Bedes view are bound up with both the integrity of nature as Gods creation, and the theological significance of Christs death and resurrection. In these works Bede reunited cosmology and timereckoning to form a unified science of computus that would become the framework for Carolingian and Scholastic basic scientific education.
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