Lupitus of Barcelona
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Lupitus of Barcelona, identified with a Christian archdeacon called Sunifred, was an astronomer in late 10th century Barcelona, then part of the Marca Hispanica, the borderland of Christian France fronting Islamic al-Andalus.
Lupitus was instrumental in the transfer of Arabic mathematics, including the astrolabe and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to Christian Europe. Gerbert of Aurillac in a letter of 984 asks Lupitus for a translation of an Arabic astronomical treatise, the Sententiae astrolabii.
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References
- Juan Vernet, The pursuit of learning - Moorish rule in Spain - Al-Andalus: where three worlds met, UNESCO Courier, Dec 1991. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1991_Dec/ai_11864005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621194000/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1991_Dec/ai_11864005 |date=2006-06-21 }}
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Category:Medieval Catalan astronomers
Category:Medieval Spanish astronomers
Category:10th-century astronomers
Category:10th-century mathematicians
Category:10th-century Catalan clergy
Category:Clergy from Barcelona
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