Pedro Chacón, born at Toledo around 1526 and dead in Rome in 1581, was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history he published in 1569 after consulting the ancient documents in its library, and there he belonged to the School of Salamanca alongside Francisco de Salinas and Fray Luis de León. By 1572 he had been summoned to Rome by Pope Gregory XIII to do mathematical work for the reform of the Julian calendar, and in 1577 he wrote the Compendium Novae Rationis Restituendi Kalendarium, a description of the reform proposal of Aloysius Lilius on which the Gregorian calendar would be based. His most famous work, De Triclinio, on the dining habits of the ancient Romans, was published after his death.
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Pedro Chacón (b. c.1526 in Toledo – 1581 in Rome) was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. == Life == He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history, consulting ancient documents in the library, he published in 1569.
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Pedro Chacón (b. c.1526 in Toledo, 1581 in Rome) was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. == Life == He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history, consulting ancient documents in the library, he published in 1569.
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Pedro Chacón (b. c.1526 in Toledo, 1581 in Rome) was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. == Life == He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history, consulting ancient documents in the library, he published in 1569.
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Pedro Chacón (b. c.1526 in Toledo, 1581 in Rome) was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. == Life == He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history, consulting ancient documents in the library, he published in 1569.
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Pedro Chacón (b. c.1526 in Toledo, 1581 in Rome) was a Spanish mathematician and theologian. == Life == He worked as professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca, whose history, consulting ancient documents in the library, he published in 1569.
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