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born Gerbert d'Aurillac; French scholar and teacher of Arab/Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy. Pope from 999 until his death in 1003, Sylvester II was accused of sorcery and making pacts with Satan; largely believed to have been rumors based on the fact he had spent his youth studying in Muslim Andalusia
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Sylvester II
Works
Mathematics
- Libellus de numerorum divisione
- De geometria
- Regula de abaco computi
- Liber abaci
- Libellus de rationali et ratione uti
Ecclesiastical
- Sermo de informatione episcoporum
- De corpore et sanguine Domini
- Selecta e concil. Basol., Remens., Masom., etc.
- Unnamed Bull, March 27 1000
Letters
- Epistolae ante summum pontificatum scriptae
- Epistolae et decreta pontificia
- Letter to Bishop Arnulf
- Letter to Otto III (disputed authenticity)
- Letter to Stephen of Hungary
- First Letter to Queen Adelaide, 983
- Second Letter to Queen Adelaide, 997
- Letter to Boso, July 15 982
Other
- Acta concilii Remensis ad S. Basolum
- Leonis legati epistola ad Hugonem et Robertum reges
Works about Sylvester II
- "Silvester II," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Pope Sylvester II," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- Gerbert, or Sylvestre II: First French Pope and the Century of Iron, 1868 by Constant Quéant
- Gerbert, Pope Silvester II, as it appeared in the 1834 Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
- Silvester II in the 1814 compilation General Biography
- Works of Gerbert, Pope under the name of Sylvester II, 1867 by A. Olleris (original title Oeuvres de Gerbert, Pape sous le Nom de Sylvester II)
- Chapter XXVI. Gerbert, as it appeared in the 1903 History of Philosophy by William Turner
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