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Alexander Neckam, (born Sept. 8, 1157, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died early
1217, Kempsey, Worcestershire) English schoolman and scientist, who was a
theology instructor at Oxford, and, from 1213, was Augustinian abbot at
Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
His textbook De utensilibus (“On Instrumentsö) is the earliest known European
writing to mention the magnetic compass as an aid to navigation. His
De naturis rerum (“On the Natures of Thingsö), a two-part introduction to a
commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, is a miscellany of scientific
information at that time novel in western Europe but already known to
Greek and Muslim savants. By securing, in his capacity as abbot, a
royal charter (1215) for a fair at Cirencester, he helped to make that
own a great medieval market for wool.
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