The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things and On Times at the outset of his career in AD 703, shaping a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material on the mathematical and physical basis of time into a lucid and well-organized account that laid the framework for…
The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things and On Times at the outset of his career in AD 703, shaping a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material on the mathematical and physical basis of time into a lucid and well-organized account that laid the framework for…
These texts are crucial for an understanding of early medieval science. Bede was instrumental in reinvigorating science as a tool that could be useful for practical ends. Furthermore, his works stand at the intersection of science and theology - a conjunction that is very much a…