- Petrus de Dacia (mathematician)
Petrus de Dacia, also called "Philomena" and "Peder nattergal" (Peter Nightingale), (ca
1230s -1289 ) was a Danish scholar, mainly working inParis andItaly . He was an author ofNew Latin works oncalendar ,astronomy andarithmetics . He published a calendar ofnew moon dates for the years 1292 - 1367. In 1292, he published a book onmathematics that contained a new methods for the calculation ofcubic root . He also described a mechanical instrument to predict solar and lunareclipse s as seen fromParis .;SourcesRasch, G. (1932) Petrus de Dacia, pp. 12-15 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen
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