Lupitus of Barcelona
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Lupitus of Barcelona
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Lupitus of Barcelona, identified with a Christian archdeacon called Sunifred, was an astronomer in late 10th century Barcelona, then part of the Marca Hispanica, the borderland of Christian France fronting Islamic al-Andalus. Lupitus was instrumental in the transfer of Arabic mathematics, including the astrolabe and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to Christian Europe. Gerbert of Aurillac in a letter of 984 asks Lupitus for a translation of an Arabic astronomical treatise, the Sententiae astrolab
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Spanish astronomer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupitus_of_Barcelona
date created:
2006-01-10T22:43:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T17:55:44Z
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