Richard of Wallingford (1291/2-1336(?))

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3956. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, became abbot of St Albans, went to Avignon to have his appointment confirmed by the Pope, and contracted leprosy (or perhaps syphilis, scrofula or tuberculosis), dying young. He made and described an astronomical clock and an elaborate equitorium called Albion, a sort of analog computer that could make Ptolemaic calculations of lunar, solar and planetary...

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