BEDA Venerable person (672 - 735) Anglo-Saxon; Saint Benedictine Monk and Doctor of the Church. It was one of the greater erudites of the high Middle Ages. The life in the monasteri of Wearmouth and Jarrow passed to all; founded in the 674 in Northumbria. Much wide is its literary production: works of grammar; natural rhetorical; astronomy; Arithmetic; geography; sciences; poetry; history; moral and dogmatic. He was also author of the ecclesiastical Historia gentis Anglorum; considered one of the more important sources for the English history. Beda made also an approximation calculus of the age of the Earth and began to divide the years in before Christ and after Christ. Current of a flat earth wrote that the Earth is round "as a ball from game"; in contrast with the opinion. Recording of Andr?Thevet.