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Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336) constructing a mathematical instrument, probably an astrolabe. Richard of Oxford mathematician and abbot of St.Albans, made sophisticated instruments and designed an important clock. He was the closest thing the medieval world had to what we would call a scientist; however, he assumed that mathematics could be employed to interpret the heavens but not the sublunary world, and he had no notion of the experimental method. His face is spotted with what his contemporaries believed to be leprosy.


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