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An old Church word (it appeared in French during the same era: 1584), the computus calculates the epact, or the interval between the rhythms of the Moon and those of the Sun, in order to base the ritual schedule,

canonic rules of Saints Bruno or Benedict, whose edicts set time schedules, the hours and the rite of Divine Office, the way the enclosure cut up space and the way the clothes made the monk.

units of the same nature repeat themselves in series.

The movement historians later called humanism varies according to the same word: education [formation] of young people, new methods of teaching; available information, the Bible at everyone’s disposal; transformation of minds, Reformation.

When pure, neither things nor humans lie.

Here we find the true nature of metal defined; this principle of identity applies to the subject as well as to the object: no base metals in pure gold; no cheating in exchange.

Latin readily unites purus with putus.

The purity of the things allows us to reduce them to numbers.

Either a new human, a citizen of the world, will appear, or humanity will totter.

We are leaving our world for other worlds, possible ones,