Skywatch for the week of May 24, 2021
Skywatch for the week of May 24, 2021 Mon May 24, 2021 THE VENERABLE BEDE FEAST DAY On May 25th in the year AD 735 – that’s over 1200 years ago - Baeda, the Venerable Bede, died. He was an English monk who in the 8th Century was the first person we know of to have written scholarly works in the English language. He also wrote De Natura Rerum, which was a collection of works on geography and astronomy, much of it preserved knowledge from Greek civilization, but also knowledge gained by observation and deduction. He was aware that the earth was round, and that the solar year is not ...
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