Fiche du document
1995
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Sujets proches
Date Hours (Time) Eras Lists of events Biography--Chronology Chronological listsCiter ce document
Michel Kavyrchine, « Le traité de Kirik sur la chronologie : Novgorod, XIIe siècle », Revue des Études Slaves, ID : 10.3406/slave.1995.6262
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Kirik's treatise on chronology: Novgorod, XIIth Century A Novgorodian monk, Kirik, composed in year 6644 (1136) a Treatise on calendar computations which gained him the title of 'First Russian mathematician'. An edition of the Treatise and French translations of this Treatise and of an associated short Chronology are given and discussed. Greek and Slavonic influences are present. Interesting mathematical contributions may be seen in the numerical notations and in the calculation of big numbers, on the basis of the date 6644. This date has a symbolic meaning, as Novgorod acquired in this year the right to choose its prince. A chapter on successive divisions of the hour by five, creating very small units of time, raises many questions. Kirik participated probably in the redaction of a Questionnary on everyday religious problems, thus assassing a wide interest in the life of his city.