Johannes de Sacrobosco
about 1195 - 1256
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John of Holywood or Johannes de Sacrobosco was an English scholar who wrote an important text on astronomy and promoted Arabic methods of arithmetic and algebra.
Mathematicians born in the same country
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| Lunar features | Crater Sacrobosco |
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