English magnetician, poet, theologian and Abbot of Cirencester Abbey
Alexander Neckam
Born
8 September 1157 St Albans
Died
31 March 1217 (aged 59) Kempsey
Resting place
Worcester Cathedral
Occupation
Magnetician
poet
theologian
Parent(s)
Hodierna of St Albans
Position held
abbot (Cirencester Abbey, 1213–1217)
Alexander Neckam[a] (8 September 1157 – 31 March 1217) was an English poet, theologian, and writer. He was an abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his death.[1]
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^Thomas F. Glick; Steven John Livesey; Faith Wallis, eds. (2005). "Alexander Neckam". Medieval science, technology, and medicine: an encyclopedia. Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge. pp. 366–67. ISBN 978-0415969307.
AlexanderNeckam (8 September 1157 – 31 March 1217) was an English poet, theologian, and writer. He was an abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his...
were first described in medieval Europe by the English theologian AlexanderNeckam (1157–1217 AD). The first literary description of a compass in Western...
Munrow,(1942–1976), a noted pioneer of Early music, lived in St Albans AlexanderNeckam (1157–1217), an English magnetician, poet, theologian, and writer....
of AlexanderNeckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England. Hodierna is also known as Audierne. According to legend, Richard I and AlexanderNeckam were...
pushed back the first mention of the magnetic compass in Europe to AlexanderNeckam about +1190, followed soon afterwards by Guyot de Provins in +1205...
works, which are enumerated by Tanner. Alexander may be confused with AlexanderNeckam, also called Alexander of St Albans. Both were abbots and writers...
cockerel; other authors added the condition of Sirius being ascendant. AlexanderNeckam (died 1217) was the first to say that not the glare but the "air corruption"...
from the Aurora. Macaulay also found borrowings "from the poem of AlexanderNeckam De Vita Monachomm, from the Speculum Stultorum, or from the Pantheon...
which would be used for navigation (first described in Europe by AlexanderNeckam in 1187). Shen discovered the concept of true north in terms of magnetic...
Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister AlexanderNeckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...
Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister AlexanderNeckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...
events, in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum. 1217 – AlexanderNeckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature...
concentrating on the beloved's defects rather than their strong points. AlexanderNeckam in the Middle Ages thought that De Remedio Amoris was the most important...
1100-1146), schoolmaster in Dunstable and later Abbot of St Albans AlexanderNeckam (1157-1217), scientist and teacher John Dunstaple (or Dunstable) (ca...
from China, appearing around Lapphyttan, Sweden, as early as 1150. AlexanderNeckam is the first European to document the mariner's compass, first documented...
other people." In Europe, Hodierna of St Albans was the mother of AlexanderNeckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England, and Mrs. Pack was a wet nurse...
"rustic's theriac" (cure-all) (see F. Adams' Paulus Aegineta, p. 99). AlexanderNeckam, a writer of the 12th century (see Wright's edition of his works, p...
lodestone in such a way that the handle of the spoon always pointed south. AlexanderNeckam, by 1187, was the first in Europe to describe the compass and its use...
paraphrases, and imitations were frequent, such as the Novus Avianus of AlexanderNeckam (12th century). De nutrice et infanti De testudine et aquila - noticed...
makes it clear that this refers to the Nile crocodile. According to AlexanderNeckam's De naturis rerum (ca 1180), the basilisk (basiliscus) was the product...
30 – Fujiwara no Kanefusa, Japanese nobleman (b. 1153) March 31 – AlexanderNeckam, English abbot (b. 1157) April 21 – Al-Mansur Abdallah, Yemeni imam...
12th-century treatise by the otherwise unknown Albricus (possibly AlexanderNeckam), and the older so-called Vatican Mythographies. These themselves drew...
England, for example as an ingredient in a greensauce described by AlexanderNeckam in the 12th century. It was recommended by Muhammad in "Sahih hadith"...
Somersetshire; others of Staffordshire; and some have confounded him with AlexanderNeckam. He wrote various theological and historical works in prose, particularly...
of Tilbury (d. 1220) and AlexanderNeckam (d. 1217) frequently referred to myths or folklore about the natural world. Neckam wrote of a bird called the...
Alberic of London, who is named in a number of the manuscripts, or to AlexanderNeckam. "Reg." refers to Queen (Latin: Regina) Christina of Sweden, who donated...
attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army. AlexanderNeckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention...
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