Peter Nightingale
Peter Nightingale may refer to: *Petrus de Dacia (mathematician) Petrus de Dacia, also called Philomena and Peder Nattergal (Peter Nightingale), was a Danish scholar who lived in the 13th century. He worked mainly in Paris and Italy, writing in Latin. He published a calendar of new moon dates for the years 129 ... (13th century), called Peter Nightingale * Peter Nightingale (physician), president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists from 2009 to 2012 {{hndis, Nightingale, Peter ...
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Petrus De Dacia (mathematician)
Petrus de Dacia, also called Philomena and Peder Nattergal (Peter Nightingale), was a Danish scholar who lived in the 13th century. He worked mainly in Paris and Italy, writing in Latin. He published a calendar of new moon dates for the years 1292-1367. In 1292, he published a book on mathematics that contained a new method for the calculation of cubic roots. He also described a mechanical instrument to predict solar and lunar eclipses as seen from Paris. Editions *''Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi'' vol. X, ed. Fritz Saaby Pedersen. Copenhagen 1983.''Petri Philomeni de Dacia in Algorismum vulgarem Johannis de Sacrobosco commentarius'' edited by Maximilian Curtze, year 1897. This text by Petrus Philomena de Dacia is a commentary about elementary methods in arithmetic. Its primary notability is that it has a better method for extracting cube roots (better than the pre-existing method reported by Johannes de Sacrobosco Johannes de Sacrobosco, also written Ioannes de S ...
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