| Author |
Brown, Nancy Marie.
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| Publication |
New York : Basic Books, [2010]
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| Copyright date |
©2010 |
| Description |
vii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Call # |
270.3092 B |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Traces the achievements of medieval Pope Sylvester II, revealing his lesser-known role in promoting scientific awareness throughout turn-of-the-first-millennium Catholicism and his introduction of Arabic numerals to Europe. |
| Contents |
A monk of Aurillac -- Of the making of books there is no end -- The ornament of the world -- Schoolmaster of Reims -- The abacus -- Math and the mind of God -- The celestial sphere -- The astrolabe -- Abbot of Bobbio -- Treason and excommunication -- The legend of the last emperor -- Pope of the year 1000 -- The end of the world. |
| Subject |
Sylvester II, Pope, approximately 945-1003.
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Religion and science -- History -- To 1500.
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| ISBN |
9780465009503 (alk. paper) : |
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0465009506 (alk. paper) |
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