Dear Mr Gupta,
It does not seem to me to be a very good idea to pass on such extremely
elementary questions as the one about Bede. Mr Glassborow should look in a
book, in a library. You could have told him so yourself.
In any case, he seems to be making money out of his enterprise and is
trying to get his research done on the cheap.
I append a copy of my reply to his query.
JVF
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:46:58 +0000
>To:Richard Glassborow [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>From:[log in to unmask] (J. V. Field)
>Subject:Elementary astronomy enquiry
>
>
>Dear Mr Glassborow,
>
>
> You do not say which books you have tried.
>
> You ought to be able to find out something about Bede in books that
>deal with the history of medieval astronomy. An authoritative recent
>source (with bibliography is Olaf Pedersen 'European astronomy in the
>Middle Ages', in C. Walker (ed.), _Astronomy before the Telescope_,
>London: British Museum Press, 1996, 175 - 186. [ISBN 0-7141-1746-3]
>Reprint 1999. This article contains some references to Bede.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> J. V. Field
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