Spanish astronomer
Lupitus of Barcelona , identified with a Christian archdeacon called Sunifred , was an astronomer in late 10th century Barcelona , then part of the Marca Hispanica , the borderland of Christian France fronting Islamic al-Andalus .
Lupitus was instrumental in the transfer of Arabic mathematics, including the astrolabe and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to Christian Europe . Gerbert of Aurillac in a letter of 984 asks Lupitus for a translation of an Arabic astronomical treatise, the Sententiae astrolabii .
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Juan Vernet, The pursuit of learning - Moorish rule in Spain - Al-Andalus: where three worlds met , UNESCO Courier, Dec 1991. [1] Archived 2006-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
International National Academics