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Bede

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Developer-priest-scientist around 725 CE. Figured out the Metonic cycle (235 synodic months = 19 tropical years) and used it, among other knowledge, to hand-compute the next 532 years of Easter dates — serving as the human computer for the computus. Also warned about Julian-calendar drift roughly 850 years before the Gregorian reform eventually fixed it.

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Hand-computed 532 years of Easter dates around 725 CE.

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