Isaac Argyros

Isaac Argyros (Greek: Ισαάκ Αργυρός) was a Byzantine mathematician and monk, born about 1312, who wrote a treatise named Easter Rule, along with books on arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.[1]

Works

An Easter Rule, a treatise on Easter
New Tables: An Astronomical treatise, based on Ptolemaic astronomy

Bibliography

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth, Joseph Needham, Cambridge University Press 1959, ISBN 978-0521058018

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References

Nicolaidis, Efthymios. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421402987.

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[1] Nicolaidis, Efthymios. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421402987.