Sylvester II
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Sylvester II was a Pope of the Catholic Church who served from 938 to 1003. He is a significant historical figure because he held one of the highest positions in medieval Christianity during a period of important cultural and political change in Europe.
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- 0938-00-00
- Died
- 1003-05-12
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Pope Sylvester II (Latin: Silvester II; c. 946 – 12 May 1003), originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and ruled the Papal States from 999 to his death. He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is said to be the first in Christian Europe (outside of Al-Andalus) to introduce the decimal numeral system using the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
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