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1. John Of Holywood
john of holywood. Johannes or Ioannes de Sacrobosco or Sacrobusco (john of holywood) was the author of a handful of widely read medieval texts on mathematics and astronomy.
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John of Holywood Johannes or Ioannes de Sacrobosco or Sacrobusco (John of Holywood) was the author of a handful of widely read medieval texts on mathematics and astronomy. Only the faintest sense of his life can be inferred; most details are speculation. Nearly all published details are, in fact, errors either invented, interpolated or propagated by commentators and authors from the Middle Ages, to eighteenth and nineteenth century antiquarians, to uncritical modern compilers.
    An 18th century sketch of a statue seen in Terregles church, reputed to be of John of Holywood. 'Revirosco' states that the statue was recovered from the abbey at the Reformation and taken for safekeeping to Terregles church. The statue is no longer there; it may have been removed when the oldest portion of the church was renovated for a family crypt in the late 19th century.
For hundreds of years his name was a household word to any student of the liberal arts. The seven artes liberales included grammar, rhetoric and logic (the trivium ) and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music (the

2. John Of Holywood (ca. 1200) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biograp
Nationality. English. john of holywood (ca. 1200) Also called John of Sacrobosco. Twelfth Century English translator who put together a book on spherical trigonometry
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John of Holywood (ca. 1200)
Also called John of Sacrobosco. Twelfth Century English translator who put together a book on spherical trigonometry called The Sphere from what he was able to understand of the ancient Greeks' work. The Sphere became the standard textbook in astronomy until the mid-fifteenth century. Like Gerard , the translator of the Almagest, John did not have the mathematical sophistication to comprehend any but the most basic concepts.

3. Sacrobosco (John Of Holywood) - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts
Sacrobosco (john of holywood) Mathematics and the Liberal Arts. To expand search, see Medieval Europe.
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Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts
To expand search, see Medieval Europe . Laterally related topics: Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) Gerbert, Pope Sylvester II The Liberal Arts Alexander de Villa Dei ... England in the Middle Ages , and France in the Middle Ages The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Sleight, E. R. The Art of Nombryng.

4. Brief Chronology Of Holywood, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
c1210 john of holywood (11951256) or Johannes de Sacrobosco, famous medieval authorof De Sphaera and other mathematical texts in use for four centuries, was
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Chronology Based on statistical, census and antiquarian accounts Neolithic - Earthwork causeways (cursus), burials and, later, at least one stone circle (later dubbed ' The Twelve Apostles ') built through the parish. The area was a religious/ceremonial/occupation centre of some significance. 6th century AD - Irish preacher Congal (?) said to have settled in the oaken wood (Dair Congal in gaelic is 'the oak of Congal'). Said to have died in 602. 'Reviresco', 'Holywood: A Forgotten Dumfriesshire Abbey', Gallavidian Annual (1922), pp. 4-40. Late 12th century - 'Reviresco' suggests that John, Lord of Kirkconnell of the Maxwell family was responsible for the establishment of Holywood Abbey c1121. Later historians put the foundation closer to 1180. The abbey was founded by the Premonstratensian Order, which followed the rule of St. Augustine. Six other monasteries of this Order were founded in Scotland, including Saulseat, Whithorn and Tongland in Galloway. The Abbey was documented by the names Dercongal, Drumcongal, Dercongall (Celtic); Sacro Bosco, Sacri Nemoris, Sancti Nemoris Halywood (Latin); St.Bois, Saint Boyse, Seint Boyse, Le Wod (French); Haliwood, Halywood, Holtwood, Holywood and Holy Wood (Anglo-Saxon). John of Holywood (1195-1256) or Johannes de Sacrobosco, famous

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6. Sacrobosco
john of holywood or Johannes de Sacrobosco was educated at Oxford. He became a canonof the Order of St Augustine at the monastery of Holywood in Nithsdale.
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Johannes de Sacrobosco
Born: about 1195 in Holywood, Yorkshire, England
Died: 1256 in Paris, France
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John of Holywood or Johannes de Sacrobosco was educated at Oxford. He became a canon of the Order of St Augustine at the monastery of Holywood in Nithsdale. In 1220 Sacrobosco went to study in Paris. Although almost all dates for Sacrobosco are guesses we do know one date precisely for, on 5 June 1221, he was appointed a teacher at the University of Paris. Soon after this he became professor of mathematics at Paris. Sacrobosco promoted Arabic methods of arithmetic and algebra in his teachings. In De Algorismo he discusses calculating with positive integers. The work contains 11 chapters, one each on topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots and cube roots. In 1220 Sacrobosco wrote Tractatus de Sphaera a book on astronomy in four chapters. The first chapter deals with the shape and place of the Earth within a spherical universe. The second chapter deals with various circles on the shy. The third chapter describes rising and setting of heavenly bodies from different geographical locations while the fourth chapter gives a brief introduction to Ptolemy 's theory of the planets and of eclipses.

7. The Teaching Of Mathematics In Britain In The Mediaeval Ages.
Despite this john of holywood, known better as Johannes de Sacrobosco, not onlystudied at the University in Paris but also lectured there helping to promote
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The teaching of mathematics in Britain in the Mediaeval Ages.
The decline in education in Europe and Britain especially continued through into the Mediaeval years, especially during the 11th century and the Norman conquest of England. King Harold's concerns about the English nobles' views of education and even the clergy's diminishing ability in Latin prose made little impact on the situation. Ability in warfare and defending ones land was more important at that time and the noblemen spent their time learning the skills of the fighter, rather than the scholar. Since there were few others with the time and the money to study, the level of education and mathematical knowledge of the populace dropped still further. By this time schools were reduced to little or no arithmetic, it is doubtful whether few knew more than basic counting and finger reckoning. During the 12th century the education in Scotland was beginning to improve thanks to efforts made by the Church, although the sciences were still neglected for the most part. The country was divided into 11 dioceses by the end of this century (although this number increased later) and schools attached to the new churches and cathedrals were set up much in the same manner as those south of the border. These schools aimed to teach people to read and write in order to aid their ability to understand the Scriptures. Many of these schools also started taking in the poor, rather than just the rich and those wanting to take up Orders. In Europe the situation was little better than England, although major centres of learning still existed in places like Paris where the University was founded during the 12th century, and this is where British students of ability went to study. This practise continued for many years in Scotland especially after the War of Independence with England, but English students were restricted by Henry II in 1167 when he banned them from attending the University of Paris. Cambridge and Oxford were then the only possible alternatives and these two rapidly grew into universities worthy of admiration. Despite this John of Holywood, known better as Johannes de

8. Comments On Sacrobosco (John Of Holywood)
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9. SACROBOSCO, Johannes De [John Of Holywood], Sphaera Mundi. Johannes REGIOMONTANU
WP Watson Antiquarian Books. SACROBOSCO, Johannes de john of holywood SphaeraMundi. Johannes REGIOMONTANUS. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.
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W. P. Watson Antiquarian Books
SACROBOSCO, Johannes de [John of Holywood] Sphaera Mundi. Johannes REGIOMONTANUS. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. Georg PEURBACH. Theoricae novae planetarum. Venice, Erhardt Ratdolt, 6 July 1482 4to (210 x 151 mm) ff 60, with full-page woodcut on verso of a1 and over 39 woodcut diagrams in text, many two-thirds page, of which 8 have a contemporary colour wash, 31 lines, incipit printed in red, white on black initials; a few leaves with some faint marginal waterstains, some occasional thumbmarks and other incidental stains, a very nice, large copy in nineteenth-century green morocco by Leighton, rebacked in matching style, gilt panels on spine, inner gilt dentelles, gilt edges. £22,500
First printing of this assembly of basic texts of pre-Copernican astronomy. Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (editio princeps 1472) was the first printed astronomical book, and a fundamental text of medieval and post-medieval astronomy. It is a synthesis of Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators, presenting an elegant, accessible Ptolemaic cosmology, and for this reason was adopted as the most authoritative astronomical textbook of its time. From the time of its composition, ca 1220, Sacrobosco's De sphaera 'enjoyed great renown, and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text... ' (John F. Daly in DSB). It was the most frequently printed astronomical work, some 30 incunable editions alone being published, and an even greater number of sixteenth-century editions.

10. SACROBOSCO,Johannes De.(John Of Holywood) (1200-1250)., Spaera
Paolo Pampaloni Antiquarian Bookseller. SACROBOSCO,Johannes de.(Johnof Holywood) (12001250). Spaera mundi Johannes de Monteregio
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11. Biografie - John Of Holywood
Translate this page john of holywood (detto Sacrobosco) Holywood fine XII sec. - Parigi 1244 o 1256.Dopo gli studi divenne canonico agostiniano nel convento di Holywood.
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John of Holywood (detto Sacrobosco) Holywood fine XII sec. - Parigi 1244 o 1256 Tractatus de sphaera mundi Indietro Indice Biografie Inizio

12. Paradigm, No. 16 (May, 1995)
The Presentation of Multiplication Tables in Textbooks. John Denniss. Chessins, Sacrobosco (john of holywood) in his manuscript The Art of Nombryng (1488)extended the table to
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/Paradigm/denniss.html
Paradigm , No. 16 (May, 1995) John Denniss Chessins,
Chignal Smealey,
Chelmsford,
Essex CM1 4TN In this article two particular features of the presentation of multiplication tables (or, more accurately, the multiplication table, as it was always referred to) in textbooks are considered namely, the range of numbers to be included in the table and the organisation of the results on the page. The texts in question are all in English and cover the period from around 1300 (when what is thought to be the earliest arithmetical manuscript in English was written) to 1900, after which separate textbooks tended to be written for the Primary and Secondary schools, the latter not usually including tables at all and the former often giving results in partial form at different stages. (However, there was, and still is, considerable variation.) In all some 45 texts are considered. Dates in the body of this text refer to year of original publication. commutative principle (e.g. 3 x 4 = 4 x 3) and thus require children to learn nearly twice as many results as they need. It is therefore startling, perhaps, to find this principle recognised in the very earliest text The Crafte of Nombrynge (c. 1300):

13. AIM25: University College London: De Sacro Bosco's 'De Sphera' And Other Tracts
Name of creator(s) Sacro Bosco Johannes De d 1244 or 1256 also knownas john of holywood or Halifax mathematician and astronomer. CONTEXT.
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=1612&inst_id=13

14. AIM25: University College London: De Sacro Bosco's 'De Sphera' And Other Tracts
3.2 CONTEXT AREA 3.2.1 Name of creator(s) Sacro Bosco Johannes De d 1244or 1256 also known as john of holywood or Halifax mathematician and
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15. History Of Astronomy: Persons (J)
Johannes de Sacrobosco de Sacro Bosco; john of holywood (c.11951256)Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.); Short
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16. History Of Astronomy: What's New At This Site On July 22, 1999
13311355) Short biography and references From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.Johannes de Sacrobosco de Sacro Bosco; john of holywood (c.1195-1256)
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17. Holywood
john of holywood is usually translated Johannes de Sacro Bosco, so Isuspect that the imprint might be the same, but it s just a guess.
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John of Holywood is usually translated Johannes de Sacro Bosco, so I suspect that the imprint might be the same, but it's just a guess.
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18. Life In Elizabethan England 60: A Classical Education
Rhetoric (Quintillian, Cicero, Eberhard de Bethune) Logic (Porphyry, Gilbert de laPoré, Hispanus) Arithmetic (john of holywood, John of Pisa) Geometry (Euclid
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A Classical Education
If you have a university education (or know someone who has), you should be at least slightly familiar with the following course of study, which has been in place since medieval times. Courses in beer and mayhem are supplementary.
In the Faculty of the Arts
Aristotle on...:
Logical or Rational Philosophy: Organon, Categories, On Interpretation, Analytics, etc.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics
Natural Philosophy, or Natural History: Physical Discourse, On the Heavens, On the Soul, On Parts of Animals, Meteorologics, , etc.
The Seven Liberal Arts
Grammar (authors: Priscian, Donatus, Villedieu, Cassiodorus, and some pagan and early Christian writers.)
Rhetoric (Quintillian, Cicero, Eberhard de Bethune)
Logic (Porphyry, Gilbert de la Poré, Hispanus)
Arithmetic (John of Holywood, John of Pisa)
Geometry (Euclid, Boëthius)
Music (Boëthius, Jehan de Muris of Paris)
Astronomy (Gerard de Cremona)
In the Faculty of Law
The principal Latin authorities are:
In civil law
Corpus Juris Civilis, the Code, the Pandects (a digest), the Institutes, the Novellae

19. Islamic Astronomy By Owen Gingerich
for the Sphere of Sacrobosco, a still further watereddown account of sphericalastronomy written in the early 13th century by john of holywood (Johannes de
http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/phys/alshukri/PHYS215/Islamic astronomy.htm
Islamic astronomy by Owen Gingerich Scientific American , April 1986 v254 p74(10) Historians who track the development of astronomy from antiquity to the Renaissance sometimes refer to the time from the eighth through the 14th centuries as the Islamic period. During that interval most astronomical activity took place in the Middle East North Africa and Moorish Spain. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages, the torch of ancient scholarship had passed into Muslim hands. Islamic scholars kept it alight, and from them it passed to Renaissance Europe. Two circumstances fostered the growth of astronomy in Islamic lands. One was geographic proximity to the world of ancient learning, coupled with a tolerance for scholars of other creeds. In the ninth century most of the Greek scientific texts were translated into Arabic, including Ptolemy's Syntaxis , the apex of ancient astronomy. It was through these translations that the Greek works later became known in medieval Europe . (Indeed, the Syntaxis is still known primarily by its Arabic name, Almagest, meaning "the greatest.")

20. Paradigm, No. 16 (May, 1995)
Sacrobosco (john of holywood) in his manuscript The Art of Nombryng (1488) extendedthe table to 10 x 10 and included all the reversals in the square
http://w4.ed.uiuc.edu/faculty/westbury/Paradigm/denniss.html
Paradigm , No. 16 (May, 1995) John Denniss Chessins,
Chignal Smealey,
Chelmsford,
Essex CM1 4TN In this article two particular features of the presentation of multiplication tables (or, more accurately, the multiplication table, as it was always referred to) in textbooks are considered namely, the range of numbers to be included in the table and the organisation of the results on the page. The texts in question are all in English and cover the period from around 1300 (when what is thought to be the earliest arithmetical manuscript in English was written) to 1900, after which separate textbooks tended to be written for the Primary and Secondary schools, the latter not usually including tables at all and the former often giving results in partial form at different stages. (However, there was, and still is, considerable variation.) In all some 45 texts are considered. Dates in the body of this text refer to year of original publication. commutative principle (e.g. 3 x 4 = 4 x 3) and thus require children to learn nearly twice as many results as they need. It is therefore startling, perhaps, to find this principle recognised in the very earliest text The Crafte of Nombrynge (c. 1300):

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