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JOHANNES DE [Joni.' IIOLYWOOD] SACRO BOSCO (d. 1244 or 1256) , astronomical author, studied at See also:Oxford and was afterwards See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the university of See also:Paris . He wrote a See also:treatise on spherical See also:astronomy, Tractatus de sphaera, first printed at See also:Ferrara in 1472 . This was the second astronomical See also:work to be printed . Although recording no advance on the Arabian commentaries on See also:Ptolemy, it gained a See also:great reputation; twenty-four See also:editions appeared before 1500, and at least See also:forty between 1 500 and 1647, in which See also:year the last edition was published, at See also:Leiden . About the year 1232 he wrote De anni ratione or De eomputo ecclesiastico (printed editions at Paris in 1538 (?), 1550, 1572 and at See also:Antwerp in 1547 and 1566), in which he points out the increasing See also:error of the See also:Julian See also:calendar, and suggests a remedy which is nearly the same as that actually used under See also:Gregory XIII. three See also:hundred and fifty years later . He also wrote Algorismus or De arte numerandi, printed in 1490 (?), in 1517 (See also:Vienna), 1521 (See also:Cracow), 1523 (See also:Venice) ; De astrolabio and Breviarum See also:juris . |
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