Paolo Dagomari di Prato
Illustration — Text from a manuscript of his Trattato d'Abbaco in Paolo's own handwriting Paolo Dagomari da Prato (1282–1374), known in Latin as Paulus Geometrus (Paolo il Geometra, "Paul the Geometer"), was a noted Florentine mathematician and astronomer, such a maestro dell'abbaco (master/teacher of the abacus) that he gained the epithet Paolo dell'Abbaco. Franco Sacchetti called him Paolo Arismetra e Astrologo (arithmetician and astronomer) and Giorgio Vasari Paulo Strolago or Paolo Astrologo (astronomer). He reputedly had 6,000–10,000 pupils over the course of his life, being praised by contemporaries like Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Filippo Villani, and Giovanni Villani in his Cronica.
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Paolo Dagomari di Prato
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- Full name
- Paolo Dagomari.
- Born
- 1282. · Prato.
- Died
- 1374. · Florence.
- Occupation
- poet, astronomer and mathematician.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Illustration — Text from a manuscript of his Trattato d'Abbaco in Paolo's own handwriting Paolo Dagomari da Prato (1282–1374), known in Latin as Paulus Geometrus (Paolo il Geometra, "Paul the Geometer"), was a noted Florentine mathematician and astronomer, such a maestro dell'abbaco (master/teacher of the abacus) that he gained the epithet Paolo dell'Abbaco. Franco Sacchetti called him Paolo Arismetra e Astrologo (arithmetician and astronomer) and Giorgio Vasari Paulo Strolago or Paolo Astrologo (astronomer). He reputedly had 6,000–10,000 pupils over the course of his life, being praised by contemporaries like Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Filippo Villani, and Giovanni Villani in his Cronica.
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Recorded at birth as Paolo Dagomari. Born at Prato in 1282, died in Florence in 1374.
Jacopo Alighieri is recorded as having studied under Paolo Dagomari di Prato. The recorded working language is Italian.
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- 1.Saverio Bettinelli,Risorgimento d'Italia negli studj, nelle arti, e ne' costumi dopo il mille, Venezia, 1786, pag. 158
- 2.Filippo Villani, Le vite d'uomini illustri fiorentini, ed. italiana a cura di Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Firenze, 1847, pag.45
- 3.Cronica di Giovanni Villani a miglior lezione ridotta coll'aiuto de' testi a penna, t. VIl, pag. 105, libro XII, cap. XLI
- 4.Novelle letterarie pubblicate in Firenze, Firenze, 1763, pag. 136
- 5.Lorenzo Cantini, Saggi istorici d'antichità toscane, Firenze, 1796, Vol. III, pag. 40
- 6.Markus A. Denzel, Kaufmannsbücher und Handelspraktiken vom Spätmittelalter bis zum beginnenden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, pag. 59
- 7.Girolamo Mancini, Vita di Leon Battista Alberti, Firenze, 1882, pag. 41
- 8.Giovanni da Prato,Paradiso degli Alberti, Vol. II, pag. 99
- 9.Lorenzo Cantini, cit., pagg. 40-41
- 10.Barnaba Tortolini, Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, Roma, 1857, Vol. VIII, pag. 268
- 11.Cesare Guasti, cit., ABB 2
- 12.Ibid.
- 13.David Eugene Smith, History of Mathematics, Courier Dover Publications, 1958, Vol. I, pag. 132
- 14.ed. a cura di Gino Arrighi, Pisa, 1964
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