Almost 1,496 years ago, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus divided the universal time to designate years based on a year Jesus was born — the “A.D.” and "B.C." system. Now, a similar Great Reset of our timeline is being attempted with COVID-19 as a marker - the BC & AC system (ie. Before Coronavirus and After Coronavirus).
इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ें - कोरोनावायरस से पहले और कोरोनावायरस के बाद हमारी समय-रेखा का ग्रेट रीसेट
The Time Keepers
Origin of AD
One of the main motivations for the European study of mathematics in the early Middle Ages, was the problem of when to celebrate Easter.
The First Council of Nicaea, in A.D. 325, had decided that Easter would fall on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the spring equinox. Computus (Latin for computation) was the procedure for calculating this date, and the computations were set forth in documents known as Easter tables.
Dionysius Exiguus
It was on one such table that, in A.D. 525, a monk name...
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