Penn Library's LJS 462 - Algorismus ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)
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Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
Mathematics
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
Astronomy
Didactic poetry Latin
Didactic poetry Latin
Codices
Poems
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Manuscripts Medieval
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Medieval Studies
Poetry
Mathematics
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
Astronomy
Didactic poetry Latin
Didactic poetry Latin
Codices
Poems
Treatises
Manuscripts Latin
Manuscripts Medieval
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Medieval Studies
Poetry
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2022-01-09
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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations. Followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar, focusing on establishing feast and fast days, including discussion of solar and lunar movement. Later astronomical notes on star clusters added at the end of the manuscript Written in Spain in the first half of the 14th century. Digital copy and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958074143503681 Record on Internet Archive, with a link to a PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs462