Computist


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Com´pu`tist


n. 1. A computer{1}.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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His stages include the metaphysical system of Scotus Eriugena, realist theories in the 11th-12th centuries, the nominal stance: Garland the computist and Abelard's Literal Glosses, Walter of Mortagne and the identity theory, the De Generibus et Speciebus and the theory of collectio, Abelard's position on Porphyry, and Gilbert of Poitiers.
The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury
It amply illustrates Bede's many-sided career as "a textual critic and linguist, a preacher and liturgist, a geographer and computist, an educator, a poet and a hagiographer in addition to being an exegete and a historian" (127).
The Cambridge Companion to Bede
The difficulty of calculating the date of Easter lay in the fact that the calculations required the computist to bring into accord the solar and lunar annual cycles, as well as the weekly or common calendar.
(24) Abbo's arguments were based in part on the increasing discrepancies between contemporary observational evidence (for example, by the time of Bede, the date of the full moon associated with the spring equinox had changed significantly), as well as recognition of errors in calculation and transmission on the part of computists and scribes.> On the Continent, the slow trickle of Arabic scholarship through Spain, the introduction of the astrolabe, and the work of Continental computists would, eventually lead to the reassessment of both sacred and historical time.
Most of the computists here, however, found different ways to defend the Latin tradition, placing the Passion in AD 12 with the Incarnation in either 21 BC (Abbo and Sigebert) or 22 BC (Marianus, Hezelo and an anonymous author of Limoges).
It is not readily apparent that the computists discussed here really were more 'individualistic' in their intellectual life (or any other way) than these earlier scholars.
Another heavy user of e-mail-delivered newsletters is Computists International (CI), Palo Alto, California.
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The Computists' Communique and TidBITS magazines: Searchable on individual news item, its title, and individual paragraph.
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* Ken Laws' Computists' Communique, a weekly electronic publication, is a rich source for dynabase-related topics.
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His year-old "Computists Communique" was electronic from the start, and is available on the Internet.(5) Each issue covers news of the domestic and international computer and research industries with topics such as job opportunities, calls for papers, and conference announcements.
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