Sylvester II
Americannoun
noun
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Instead, the German historian argued, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II, desiring to live in the numerically significant year AD1000, fabricated a significant chunk of history.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2017
Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new numbers didn’t catch on, even though a tenth-century pope, Sylvester II, was an admirer of them.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Gerbert, who became later Pope Sylvester II, is said to have given us our present Arabic figures.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William
The second of these popes was a very learned and clever Frenchman, named Gerbert, who as pope took the name of Sylvester II.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie
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