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John de Sacrobosco (c. 1195 - 1256)

Alias John of Holywood

Monk, astronomer, scholar, and teacher at the University of Paris Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13631?docPos=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Sacrobosco Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)
Authority - medieval
 Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business University of Paris, Paris
 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - De sphaera mundi.
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica. Aristotle de Precationibus. Democritus de his quæ fiunt apud Orcum, & Oceani circumnavigatio. A defence of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, whom the learned Postellus conceived to be the author of De Tribus Impostoribus. Epicurus de Pietate. A Tragedy of Thyestes, and another of Medea, writ by Diogenes the Cynick. King 199 Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Abscondita King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis. Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul. King Solomon de Umbris Idæarum, which Chicus Asculanus, in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco, would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria.