"Christian era" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1508. The Christian era was computed in Florence at that time from the Incarnation (Lady day, March 25th). Hence this should be ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... self-preservation should prevent such an addition. That might be as injudicious as it would have been for some bright young man in ancient Egypt, five thousand years before the Christian era, to express a doubt concerning the divinity of the sacred bull. The correctness of his conjecture would not have saved him from a horrible death at the hands of the faithful." And he began to lead ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... flourished for three centuries prior to the Christian era, produced men of eminence whose discoveries and investigations, when arranged and classified, enabled astronomy to be regarded as a true theoretical science. The positions of the fixed stars and the paths of the planets were determined with greater accuracy, and irregularities ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... abundant here as to have formed an important part of the materials supplied to the furnaces of the Forest, afford proof that the iron-mines were in existence as early as the commencement of the Christian era; so that the openings we now see are the results of many centuries of mining operations, with which their extent, number, and size ...
— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls
... three centuries of the Christian era very few of the church fathers had any knowledge of Hebrew. The churches received the Scriptures of the Old Testament through the medium of the Alexandrine Greek version, which contained the apocryphal ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows
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