Prof Faith Wallis has translated 1 of bede's three science books (2) On Time, 2) on the reckoning of time). 3) The nature of things. "on the reckoning of time" is concerned with the science needed to calculate the date of easter, the "computus". Published by Liverpool University Press,1999.

chapters 31-32 mention that the explanation for the difference in the length of the day at different places north and south of the equator are the result of the earth being a sphere with the sun being more below or above the southern horizon depending on the latitude. the chapters in Bede duplicate material borrowed from 1rst century roman science popularizer, Pliny the elder, book. "The natural history", most of Bede's book's are meant as textbooks for junior priests. the book "on the reckoning of time" was very popular, and 260 copies of it exist from time periods after Bede's life.