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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 280 — BOOK VIII[239]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Christopher Clavius (1537-1612), a native of Bamberg and a great Jesuit mathematician, was sent to Rome, where Gregory XIII. employed him on the reform of the Calendar.—T.

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