Which English mathematician and cleric first proposed the reformed grave calendar adopted as the Gregorian in a 1582 treatise submitted to Rome?
Long before Britain grudgingly adopted the new calendar in 1752, the mathematics behind it drew on work by scholars across Europe. One Calabrian-born physician is usually credited, but his key collaborator was a Jesuit mathematician from Bamberg.
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