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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1151] De illustr. viris., ch. 73. [The dates which are known suggest conjectural dates of our author’s birth and death.]
[1152] In the 32d chapter of the seventh book of his Ecclesiastical History.
[1153] [“There were giants in those days.” How gloriously, even in the poverty and distress of the martyr-ages, the cultivation of learning was established by Christianity!]
[1154] [This Eusebius was a learned man, born at Alexandria.]
The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria.
[1155] First edited from ancient manuscript by Ægidius Bucherius, of the Society of Jesus.
[1156] Circulos. [Note the reference to Hippolytus.]
[1157] Gressus. Vol. v. p. 3; also Bunsen, i. pp. 13, 281.]
[1158] [It seems probable that the hegemony which Alexandria had established in all matters of learning led to that full recognition of it, by the Council of Nicæa, which made its bishop the dictator to the whole Church in the annual calculation of Easter. Vol. ii. 343.]
[1159] i.e., “smith” or “brasier,” probably from his assiduity.
[1160] Lunæ vii. Perhaps, as Bucher conjectures, Lunæ xiv., fourteen days, &c.
[1161] The text is doubtful and corrupt here.
[1162] Aliquid stillicidii.
[1163] [The Church’s Easter-calculations created modern astronomy, which passed to the Arabians from the Church. (See Whewell’s Inductive Sciences.) They preserved it, but did not improve it, in Spain. Christianity re-adopted it, and the presbyter Copernicus new-created it. The court of Rome (not the Church Catholic) persecuted Galileo; but it did so under the lead of professional “Science,’” which had darkened the human mind, from the days of Pythagoras, respecting his more enlightened system.]
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