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Sylvester II
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…
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science · Head of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003 · astronomer · mathematician · politician · Catholic priest · philosopher · theologian · astrologer · scholaster · writer · cleric · also Sylvester II, Pope Sylvester II, II
Died 12 May 1003 · Q172383
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Published “Magnetic order close to superconductivity in the iron-based layered LaO1-xF x FeAs systems” in Nature — cited 1,742 times.
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1003· 1 entry
Died 1003-05-12.
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0999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Pope (0999–1003).
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0998· 1 entry
Career landmark: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ravenna (0998–0999).
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0991· 3 entries
Career landmark: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims (0991–0998).
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Career landmark: Lord Chancellor of France (0991–0995).
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Career landmark: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims (0991–0995).
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0982· 1 entry
Career landmark: abbot (0982–0984).
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