The Paschal Canon Of Anatolius Of Alexandria
A historical and chronological work by Anatolius of Alexandria, a renowned scholar and bishop, addressing the calculation of Easter and demonstrating the intersection of mathematics and Christian liturgy.
20 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Introductory Notice to Anatolius and Minor Writers.
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Anatolius and Minor Writers.
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Section I. As we are about to speak on the subject of the order of the times
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Section II. There is, then, in the first year, the new moon of the first month
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Section III. Nor is this an opinion confined to ourselves alone.
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Section IV. But this Aristobulus also adds, that for the feast of the Passover it was necessary
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Section V. I am aware that very many other matters were discussed by them
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Section VI. And, therefore, in this concurrence of the sun and moon
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Section VII. To us, however, with whom it is impossible for all these things to come aptly
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Section VIII. Accordingly, it is not the case, as certain calculators of Gaul allege
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Section IX. But what wonder is it that they should have erred in the matter of the
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Section X. But nothing was difficult to them with whom it was lawful to celebrate the Passover
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Section XI. Moreover, the allegation which they sometimes make against us
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Section XII. But this again is held by other wise and most acute men to be an
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Section XIII. The moon's age set forth in the Julian Calendar.
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Section XIV. The Paschal or Easter Table of Anatolius.
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Section XV. This cycle of nineteen years is not approved of by certain African investigators who have
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Section XVI. Furthermore, as to the proposal subjoined to your epistle
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Section XVII. Be not ignorant of this, however, that those four determining periods
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Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic.