computus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.

   “An elaborate bundle of techniques called computus therefore developed around Easter calculations. Computus formed the centerpiece of “scientific” education in the monasteries.”

2. isim A book of tables for calculating dates of astronomical events and moveable feasts.

   “Prognostics have thus been discovered in computi, in volumes on science or medicine, and in miscellanies which present a host of different text genres.”