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	Pope Silvester II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gerbert fled, pursued by the victim, who could trace the thief by the stars, but Gerbert was aware of the pursuit, and hid hanging from a wooden bridge, where, suspended between heaven and earth, he was invisible to the magician.
		Gerbert was supposed to have built a bronze head, or to have acquired it from the Nine Unknown Men, which would answer his questions with "yes" or "no".
		Gerbert then cancelled a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but when he read mass in the church of Saint Mary of Jerusalem (also called "Jerusalem church") in Rome, he became sick soon afterwards and, dying, he asked his cardinals to cut up his body and scatter it across the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Silvester_II (1162 words)

	Pope Silvester II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gerbert there met Pope John XIII and the emperor Otto I. The Pope persuaded Otto to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future emperor Otto II.
		When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 983, he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Reims.
		Gerbert was supposed to have built a bronze head, who would answer his questions with "yes" or "no".
	pope-silvester-ii.iqnaut.net (1084 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Gerbert was born somewhere in the mountainous region of Auvergne, in central France.
		Gerbert came to realize that all of the magician's powers came from the spells that were contained in a book that he kept under lock and key.
		Gerbert had also mastered arabic numerals and so could do calculations in his head that were extremely difficult for anyone thinking in terms of Roman numerals.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/gerbert.html (2131 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Otto made Gerbert abbot of Bobbio, where he was unpopular with the monks.
		Gerbert was as unpopular with the clergy in his diocese as he had been with the monks at Bobbio.
		Otto II choose Gerbert to succeed Gregory V in 999 and gave the pope the eight counties of the Pentapolis (Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, Ancona and the adjacent territories).
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xsylvester2.html (296 words)

	Master: Gerbert of Aurillac
		Also known as Pope Sylvester II (999-1003), Gerbert of Aurillac was a leading scholar of his day.
		He is said to have introduced the use of Arabic figures into Western Europe, and to have invented the pendulum clock."
		See also a Lecture on Gerbert from a History Class at the University of Kansas.
	cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/gerbert.html (120 words)

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