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Alexander Neckam (8 September 1157 – 31 March 1217) was an English poet, theologian, and writer. He was an abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his...

reputation that the famous Norman scholars Geoffrey de Gorham and Alexander Neckam applied for the post of Master. Geoffrey de Gorham was later to become...

were first described in medieval Europe by the English theologian Alexander Neckam (1157–1217 AD). The first literary description of a compass in Western...

pushed back the first mention of the magnetic compass in Europe to Alexander Neckam about +1190, followed soon afterwards by Guyot de Provins in +1205...

of Alexander Neckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England. Hodierna is also known as Audierne. According to legend, Richard I and Alexander Neckam were...

works, which are enumerated by Tanner. Alexander may be confused with Alexander Neckam, also called Alexander of St Albans. Both were abbots and writers...

Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...

cockerel; other authors added the condition of Sirius being ascendant. Alexander Neckam (died 1217) was the first to say that not the glare but the "air corruption"...

which would be used for navigation (first described in Europe by Alexander Neckam in 1187). Shen discovered the concept of true north in terms of magnetic...

from the Aurora. Macaulay also found borrowings "from the poem of Alexander Neckam De Vita Monachomm, from the Speculum Stultorum, or from the Pantheon...

Munrow,(1942–1976), a noted pioneer of Early music, lived in St Albans Alexander Neckam (1157–1217), an English magnetician, poet, theologian, and writer....

Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...

concentrating on the beloved's defects rather than their strong points. Alexander Neckam in the Middle Ages thought that De Remedio Amoris was the most important...

Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...

1100-1146), schoolmaster in Dunstable and later Abbot of St Albans Alexander Neckam (1157-1217), scientist and teacher John Dunstaple (or Dunstable) (ca...

from China, appearing around Lapphyttan, Sweden, as early as 1150. Alexander Neckam is the first European to document the mariner's compass, first documented...

events, in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum. 1217 – Alexander Neckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature...

other people." In Europe, Hodierna of St Albans was the mother of Alexander Neckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England, and Mrs. Pack was a wet nurse...

paraphrases, and imitations were frequent, such as the Novus Avianus of Alexander Neckam (12th century). De nutrice et infanti De testudine et aquila - noticed...

lodestone in such a way that the handle of the spoon always pointed south. Alexander Neckam, by 1187, was the first in Europe to describe the compass and its use...