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209: 41: 197: 298:. Campanus gave precise instructions on using the tables, and made detailed calculations of the distances to the planets and their sizes. This work has been called "the first detailed account of the Ptolemaic astronomical system... to be written in the Latin-speaking West." 172:
cited Campanus as one of the two "good" (but not "perfect") mathematicians indicating that Bacon considered Campanus as excellent or one of the greatest mathematicians of their time. A number of
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in fifteen books. This work by Campanus was influential and was the most frequently used compilation of Euclid until the 16th century. It was based on a compilation by
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The commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of geometry, with an introduction on the transmission of Euclid's Elements in the Middle Ages
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His date of birth is uncertain but may have been as early as the first decade of the 13th century and the place of birth was probably
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into equal 30° arcs, or houses, is often attributed to him but the method is known to have been described by others before his time.
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North, John David (1986). "The eastern origins of the Campanus (Prime Vertical) method. Evidence from al-Bīrūnī".
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as well as its geometrical description. Campanus also attempted to determine the time of each planet's
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Campanus; and the full style of his name is Magister Campanus Nouariensis. He is also referred to as
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were conferred upon him and he was relatively wealthy at the time of his death. He died at
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Wilson, Curtis (1973). "Review: A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Ptolemaic Astronomy".
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or similar. Later authors (from the 16th century on) sometimes applied the forename
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Campanus of Novara and medieval planetary theory: Theorica planetarum
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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi
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in which he geometrically described the motions of the
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Campanus (disambiguation)

Novara
Viterbo
mathematician
astronomer
astrologer
physician
Euclid's Elements
Magister
Novara
Piedmont
Pope Urban IV
Pope Adrian V
Pope Nicholas IV
Pope Boniface VIII
Roger Bacon
benefices
Viterbo
crater Campanus
Moon


Latin
Robert of Chester
Jordanus de Nemore
Anaritius
printed
Erhard Ratdolt
Venice

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