Pope Sylvester II
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title:
Pope Sylvester II
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Pope Sylvester II, originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and ruled the Papal States from 999 to his death. He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is said to be the first in Christian Europe to introduce the decima
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Head of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II
date created:
2001-11-12T05:38:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T04:20:28Z
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