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    Johannes de Sacrobosco, also written Ioannes de Sacro Bosco, later called John of Holywood or John of Holybush (c. 1195 – c. 1256), was a scholar, Catholic...
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    de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John...
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    Sacrobosco is an irregular lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands to the west of the Rupes Altai escarpment. It is a readily...
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    Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis had 31 days before it was renamed. It was not chosen for...
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    appears in some reform calendars. The thirteenth-century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco claimed that in the Julian calendar, February had 30 days in leap...
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  • 1180–84 Tractatus de Sphaera, or De sphaera mundi, the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco c. 1230 Tractatus de superstitionibus...
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    Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th-century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was...
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    of a small paper boat in an edition of Tractatus de sphaera mundi from 1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco. However it is very likely that paper folding originated...
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  • He is known as the author of a 1271 commentary on the De Sphera Mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco. It includes a significant reference to the state of the...
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  • used in Eastern Orthodoxy Precursors of the Gregorian reform Johannes de Sacrobosco, De Anni Ratione ("On reckoning the years"), c. 1235 Roger Bacon,...
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